A revisionist account of early language development

作     者：Wilkes, MV 

作者机构：Olivetti & Oracle Res Lab Cambridge England 

出 版 物：《COMPUTER》 

年 卷 期：1998年第31卷第4期

页      面：22-+页

核心收录：

学科分类：0808[工学-电气工程] 08[工学] 0835[工学-软件工程] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 

主　　题：Automatic programming High level languages Computer languages International Committee Continents Europe Ice Art Runtime Optimizing compilers 

摘      要：IN the 1950s, there was a good deal of discussion at computer conferences about what was then known as automatic programming. This led to Fortran, which was developed by a group within IBM who had strictly pragmatic aims. They saw a clear need for some system that would enable the labor of program ming to be reduced. The scientific study of programming languages began slightly later with the publication of the Algol 60 report. This was put together by an international committee whose aims were essentially intellectual. They set out to design a language that was elegant in a mathematical sense and would enable scientists to specify a computation without concerning themselves about practical details. Together, Fortran and Algol define a;fault line that runs through the study of programming languages that we are now only beginning to bridge.