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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-242) and index.
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.
