The two definitive presentations of the history of programming languages are: Programming
Languages: History and Fundamentals, by Jean E. Sammet, and History of Programming …

Before starting this historical description of COBOL, it is essential to point out several factors
relating to my involvement with this particular paper. First, during the entire time that I had …

Based on interviews, reviews of the literature, and personal impressions, the author offers
historical, technical, and social/psychological perspectives on the fragile relationship …

Sammet and Garfunkel Trace some of the changes in COBOL from its initial 1960
specifications to its current draft 1985 standard. Sammet was there at the beginning, and …

The Program Committee felt that it might be of some interest to you to get two pieces of
information. One was some perception of what his happened in the programming language …

COBOL is a programming language known to a large number of people who work in data
processing. It is less known to the general public, and chemists becom—ing involved in data …

It should be easy to do the history of computing. After all, computing began less than 50
years ago, and we have crowds of eye witnesses, mountains of documents, storerooms of …

History is contextual. The ALGOLt development was a product, perhaps a miraculous
product, of its time. All developments proceed, almost implacably, from the primitive to the …

Abstract When, in 1975, Edsger Dijkstra made his comment that “The use of COBOL cripples
the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence 1,” he gave voice …

The world seems to have a rather negative perception of ALGOL 68. The language has
been said to be" too big," to be defined by an" unreadable Report" produced by a committee …