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A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century

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History of Computing in the Twentieth Century

659 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 28, 1980

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June 1, 2023
Some great stuff in here, but unbelievably dry. Really enjoyed Knuth's article on the early development of programming languages. It's wild how alien those early PLs were, and then ALGOL 58 comes out and it's totally legible to the contemporary programmer.
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