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245 10 a| Go to :b| the story of the math majors, bridge players, engineers, chess wizards, maverick scientists, and iconoclasts, the programmers who created the software revolution /c| Steve Lohr.;

300 a| x, 250 pages ;c| 24 cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-242) and index.;

505 00 g| 1.t| Introduction : the rise of software and the programming art --g| 2.t| FORTRAN : the early "turning point" --g| 3. Thet| hard lessons of the sixties : from exuberance to the realities of COBOL and the IBM 360 project --g| 4.t| Breaking big iron's grip : Unix and C --g| 5.t| Programming for the millions : the BASIC story from Dartmouth to Visual Basic --g| 6. Thet| European influence : from Algol to Pascal to C++ --g| 7. At| computer of my own : the beginning of the PC industry and the story of Word --g| 8.t| Computing for the masses : the long road to "Gooey" and the Macintosh --g| 9.t| Programming for everyman : just let the users do it --g| 10.t| Java : the messy birth of a new language --g| 11.t| There has to be a better way : Apache and the Open Source Movement.;

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Go to : the story of the math majors, bridge players, engineers, chess wizards, maverick scientists, and iconoclasts, the programmers who created the software revolution / Steve Lohr.

Author/creator	Lohr, Steve
Format	Book
Publication Info	New York, NY : Basic Books, ©2001.
Description	x, 250 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects	Computer programming. Computer programmers. Software engineering. Computer software--Development.

Contents	1. Introduction : the rise of software and the programming art -- 2. FORTRAN : the early "turning point" -- 3. The hard lessons of the sixties : from exuberance to the realities of COBOL and the IBM 360 project -- 4. Breaking big iron's grip : Unix and C -- 5. Programming for the millions : the BASIC story from Dartmouth to Visual Basic -- 6. The European influence : from Algol to Pascal to C++ -- 7. A computer of my own : the beginning of the PC industry and the story of Word -- 8. Computing for the masses : the long road to "Gooey" and the Macintosh -- 9. Programming for everyman : just let the users do it -- 10. Java : the messy birth of a new language -- 11. There has to be a better way : Apache and the Open Source Movement.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-242) and index.
LCCN	2001275993
ISBN	0465042252

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