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Subject: Re: [9fans] nice quote
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On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 05:51:33PM +0100, Eris Discordia wrote:
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> I don't think we are actually in disagreement here. I have no objection=
s to=20
> your assertion. However, the particular case at hand indicates a differ=
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> thing than historians (of computer technology) "backporting" today's=20
> trivial matters. I believe that a concept existed in a language=20
> (Plankalkuel) but not the machine it was supposed to control (Z3) by al=
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> [...]

There is a rather extensive review of=20

"The Early Development of Programming Languages"=20
	by Donald E. Knuth and Luis Trabb Pardo,
	reproduced and completed in "Selected Papers on Computer Languages",
	Donald E. Knuth, CSLI ISBN 1-57586-382-0

presenting the state and achievement, among many others, of Zuss
Plankalk=FCl (followed by Goldstine/von Neumann, Curry, Mauchly etc.).
--=20
Thierry Laronde (Alceste) <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com>
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