Re: Languages from the 1950s

From	Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de>
Newsgroups	comp.compilers
Subject	Re: Languages from the 1950s
Date	2020-04-01 17:49 +0200
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Am 30.03.20 um 16:16 schrieb Derek M. Jones:
> All,
>
> I looking for manuals for languages from the 1950s,
> the earlier the better.
>
> There were lots of languages around (we just don't know much
> about them today):
> http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2017/05/21/evidence-for-28-possible-compilers-in-1957/

Slightly outside your time range: Plankalkül, a high-level language
developed 1942-1946, first implemented in 1975.

However, Konrad Zuse, "Über den Allgemeinen Plankalkül als Mittel zur
Formulierung schematisch-kombinativer Aufgaben", Archiv der Mathematik
volume 1, pages 441-449 (1948) is not in ACM, and Springer didn't make
their stuff freely available yet, but there is Sci-Hub, and there is
later documentation also.

Philipp
[The Knuth paper has 7 pages on Plankalkül, including a sample program.
Here's a cleaner copy at bitsavers:
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/stanford/cs_techReports/STAN-CS-76-562_EarlyDevelPgmgLang_Aug76.pdf
-John]

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Languages from the 1950s "Derek M. Jones" <derek@_NOSPAM_knosof.co.uk> - 2020-03-30 15:16 +0100
  Re: Languages from the 1950s anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2020-03-31 17:08 +0000
    Re: Languages from the 1950s "Derek M. Jones" <derek@_NOSPAM_knosof.co.uk> - 2020-03-31 19:27 +0100
  Re: Languages from the 1950s gah4@u.washington.edu - 2020-03-31 16:09 -0700
    Re: Languages from the 1950s "Robin Vowels" <robin51@dodo.com.au> - 2020-04-02 13:05 +1100
  Re: Languages from the 1950s "Robin Vowels" <robin51@dodo.com.au> - 2020-04-01 21:31 +1100
    Re: Languages from the 1950s "Derek M. Jones" <derek@_NOSPAM_knosof.co.uk> - 2020-04-01 17:35 +0100
  Re: Languages from the 1950s Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> - 2020-04-01 17:49 +0200
  Re: Languages from the 1950s rst@panix.com (Robert Thau) - 2020-05-10 00:46 +0000
    Re: Languages from the 1950s Martin Ward <martin@gkc.org.uk> - 2020-05-13 10:51 +0100
  Re: Languages from the 1950s "Robin Vowels" <robin51@dodo.com.au> - 2020-09-03 21:02 +1000

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