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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48197889 Title: Go to : the story of the math majors, bridge players, engineers, chess wizards, maverick scientists, and iconoclasts, the programmers who created the software revolution Author: Steve Lohr Publisher: New York, NY : Basic Books, ©2001. ISBN/ISSN: 0465042252 9780465042258 OCLC:48197889

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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

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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

Author:	Steve Lohr
Publisher:	New York, NY : Basic Books, ©2001.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Steve Lohr Find more information about:
ISBN:	0465042252 9780465042258
OCLC Number:	48197889
Description:	x, 250 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
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