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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 28 , Issue 2 (February 1985) table of contents

Pages: 160 - 164

Year of Publication: 1985

ISSN:0001-0782

Author

Niklaus Wirth

Xerox Research Center, Palo Alto, CA

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

From NELIAC (via ALGOL 60) to Euler and ALGOL W, to Pascal and Modula-2, and ultimately Lilith, Wirth's search for an appropriate formalism for systems programming yields intriguing insights and surprising results.

CITED BY 5

	Robert P. Cook, An Empirical Analysis of the Lilith Instruction Set, IEEE Transactions on Computers, v.38 n.1, p.156-158, January 1989
	Naomi S. Baron, The future of computer languages: implications for education, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.18 n.1, p.44-49, February 1986
	Morton Goldberg, A response to "some concerns about Modula-2", ACM SIGPLAN Notices, v.20 n.8, August 1985
	Robert L. Ashenhurst, ACM forum, Communications of the ACM, v.28 n.11, p.1117-1120, Nov. 1985
	Henry G. Baker, Precise instruction scheduling without a precise machine model, ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News, v.19 n.6, p.4-8, Dec. 1991

INDEX TERMS

Classification:
D. Software
D.3 PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

K. Computing Milieux
K.2 HISTORY OF COMPUTING
Subjects: Software

General Terms:
Design, Human Factors, Languages

REVIEW

"Irving Luckom : Reviewer"

In this Turing Award Lecture, Wirth provides us with a very interesting insight into the thought processes of one of the outstanding programming language designers of our times. Wirth's lecture is both a history of his work and a set of concise, more...

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