Programming Languages: A Grand Tour

Content: 
Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Front Matter....Pages 1-3
Programming Languages—The First 25 Years....Pages 4-22
On the Design of Programming Languages....Pages 23-30
Hints on Programming Language Design....Pages 31-40
Front Matter....Pages 41-43
Report on the Algorithmic Language Algol 60....Pages 44-60
The Remaining Troublespots in Algol 60....Pages 61-68
A Contribution to the Development of Algol....Pages 69-88
A Tutorial on Algol 68....Pages 89-124
Ambiguities and Insecurities in Pascal....Pages 125-136
An Assessment of the Programming Language Pascal....Pages 137-142
Front Matter....Pages 143-145
Can Programming Be Liberated from the Von Neumann Style? A Functional Style and its Algebra of Programs....Pages 146-174
Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions....Pages 175-186
LISP 1.5 Programmer’s Manual....Pages 187-211
The Design of APL....Pages 212-222
Front Matter....Pages 223-225
Abstraction Mechanisms in CLU....Pages 226-238
Exception Handling in CLU....Pages 239-251
Notes on the Design of Euclid....Pages 252-259
Front Matter....Pages 261-263
The Programming Language Concurrent Pascal....Pages 264-272
Modula: A Language for Modular Multiprogramming....Pages 273-305
Communicating Sequential Processes....Pages 306-317
Front Matter....Pages 319-321
An Overview of Ada....Pages 322-354
Front Matter....Pages 319-321
Fortranner’s Lament....Pages 355-363
The C Programming Language....Pages 364-385
C Reference Manual....Pages 386-416
Military Standard....Pages 417-658
Back Matter....Pages 659-664