Selected Papers on Computer Languages

Knuth, Donald Ervin

ISBN 10: 1575863820 / ISBN 13: 9781575863825

Verlag: CSLI Publications, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford, California, 2003

Beschreibung

Quarto in glosst blue, grey & yellow glassy illus paper wraps; xvi, 504 pages: illustrations; 23 cm; bibliographical references and index. 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. As new; very fine.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 93745

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Selected Papers on Computer Languages
• Verlag: CSLI Publications, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford, California
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1575863820
• ISBN-13: 9781575863825
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: very fine
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Science, Technology & Computers

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

This volume, sixth in a series of collected works by world-renowned computer scientist Donald E. Knuth, assembles approximately two doxen of his pioneering contributions to the field of computer languages, including papers on ALGOL, SOL, RUNCIBLE, and FORTRAN. Papers on the early development of programming languages, the history of writing compilers, the characterization of parenthesis languages, and the semantics of context-free languages are also included.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Donald E. Knuth is professor emeritus of The Art of Computer Programming at Stanford University.