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Talkat Strange Loop 2014 · 2014-09-17..09-19· [computing-history, compilers-and-language-design]

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name:Mark Allen
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video:https://youtu.be/jmRE5pXFi04
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summary

Using primary sources the talk traces concrete claims and artifacts: the first automatic compilers that become FORTRAN in 1957 and whose compiled output startled programmers, LISP’s interpreter hand‑coded on an IBM 704 and its invention of garbage collection to reclaim list memory, ALGOL’s formal BNF grammar and lexical scope and call‑by‑name innovations, and a rushed COBOL specification delivered in six months COBOL spec to satisfy vendors — often succeeding technically but failing to meet all original goals.

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chapters (7)

  1. 0:00Introduction
  2. 2:50State of computing
  3. 9:52Fortran
  4. 19:04Lisp
  5. 27:19Algol
  6. 35:33Cobol
  7. 39:16Conclusion

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