Selected Papers on Computer Languages

Stanford, California: CSLI Publications, Center for the Study of Language and Information, 2003. Quarto in glosst blue, grey & yellow glassy illus paper wraps; xvi, 504 pages: illustrations; 23 cm; bibliographical references and index. As new; very fine. Paperback. ISBN: 9781575863825

Contents: 1.; The Early Development of Programming Languages --; 2.; Backus Normal Form versus Backus Naur Form --; 3.; Teaching ALGOL 60 --; 4.; ALGOL 60 Confidential --; 5.; Smalgol-61 --; 6.; Man or Boy? --; 7.; A Proposal for Input-Output Conventions in ALGOL 60 --; 8.; The Remaining Trouble Spots in ALGOL 60 --; 9.; SOL -- A Symbolic Language for Systems Simulation --; 10.; A Formal Definition of SOL --; 11.; The Science of Programming Languages --; 12.; Programming Languages for Automata --; 13.; A Characterization of Parenthesis Languages --; 14.; Top-Down Syntax Analysis --; 15.; On the Translation of Languages from Left to Right --; 16.; Context-Free Multilanguages --; 17.; Semantics of Context-Free Languages --; 18.; Examples of Formal Semantics.Programming languages (Electronic computers), Computers, History and developing od computer coding and prgrammig.