“People imagine that programming is logical ... Ullman worked as a computer programmer and software engineer for 20 years, beginning in the late 1970s, when the profession drew from an eclectic ...

At first, programming a computer involved literally connecting wires, then flipping switches, and even punching paper cards. Over time, engineers developed ways to abstract away low-level ...

80s. net. Computer Language An ... A Primer of ALGOL 60 Programming With a Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 60. By E. W. Dijkstra. (A.P.I.C. Studies in Data Processing, No. 2.) ...