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From programming language design to computer construction
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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
Publisher
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.




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...