Title :
A revisionist account of early language development
Author :
Wilkes, Maurice V.
Author_Institution :
Olivetti & Oracle Res. Lab., Cambridge, UK
fDate :
4/1/1998 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The author discusses how the practicality of Fortran and the elegance of Algol defined a fault line running through programming language study that we are just now beginning to bridge. He considers Algol´s block structure and some alternatives to this structure
Keywords :
ALGOL; FORTRAN; programming; Algol; Fortran; block structure; programming; programming language development; Art; Automatic programming; Computer languages; Continents; Europe; High level languages; Ice; International Committee; Optimizing compilers; Runtime;
