Artifact Details

Description

This lecture surveys the evolution of "high-level" programming languages during the first decade of computer programming activity. Discussed are the contributions of Zuse (the Plankalkul), Goldstine and von Neumann (Flow Diagrams), Curry (Composition), Mauchley et al. (Short Code), Burks (Intermediate PL), Rutishauser (Klammerausdruke), Bohm (Forumules), Glennie (AUTOCODE), Hopper et al. (A-2), Laning and Zierler (Algebraic Interpreter), Backus et al. (FORTRAN), Brooker (Mark I AUTOCODE), Kamynin and Liubimskii.

Tape covers 8:56 to 10:21 AM.

Roughly corresponds to "The Early Development of Programming Languages" in _A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century_, ed. N. Mtropolis, J. Howlett, and Gian-Carlo Rosa.

Date

1976-06-15

Credits

Knuth, Donald E.

Place of Publication

Los Alamos, NM, US

Identifying Numbers

Other number	Reel 36	Original tape numbering
Other number	Reel 37	Original tape numbering

Duration

01:20:00

Format

VHS

Category

Lecture

Series Title

International Research Conference on the History of Computing

Lot Number

X5953.2011

Related Records

102695392

Early history of programming languages. Lecture by Donald E. Knuth at the Los Alamos History of Computing Conference