我刚拿起了 Knuth 的《Selected Papers on Computer Languages》[1]，里面对这个主题做了一些挺有意思的探讨。不过坦白讲，大部分内容的信息密度远超我的心理准备。开头那篇关于 1950 年代之前语言的文章非常引人入胜。在…
I just picked up Knuth's Selected Papers on Computer Languages[1] which has some fun exploration of this topic. Mostly, I will confess, much denser than I am probably prepared for. The initial essay on languages before the 1950s was remarkably interesting. In…
…available online (e.g. at http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/stanford/cs_techRepor...) (TeX didn't exist yet), but a nicely typeset (and slightly updated) version occupies pages 1 to 93 of Knuth's Selected Papers on Computer Languages (the fifth volume of Knuth's collected papers). The many programming languages/systems described in that article go by various names like "automatic coding" and whatnot. For example, Burks in 1950 used…
…nice talk (~80 minutes followed by ~30 minutes of Q&A) that Donald Knuth gave on 2003-December-03 at the Computer History Museum. This paper was reprinted with corrections/updates as pages 1 to 93 of "Selected Papers on Computer Languages" (the fifth volume of Knuth's collected papers), and the talk was given shortly after this book came out, so he spoke about the first chapter of the book. The clever idea here is to illustrate (very)…
他的书《Selected Papers on Computer Languages》还收录了另外几篇论文，为属性文法（attribute grammars）的发明背景、发现过程及其后续应用提供了更多的背景信息。
His book "Selected Papers on Computer Languages" collects a few more papers that provide more context for the discover and subsequent application of the invention of attribute grammars.
…1976 年 8 月的技术报告（网上有，比如 https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA032123），随后“正式”作为一篇条目发表在 1977 年的一部百科全书中，而终极定稿版本则收录在其《Selected Papers on Computer Languages》的第一章。当该文集于 2003 年出版时，他在计算机历史博物馆做了一场题为《A Dozen Precursors of Fortran》的演讲，视频链接在这里：https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10262213...…
…report in August 1976 (available online e.g. https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA032123), then "for real" as a contribution to a 1977 encyclopedia, and the definitive version collected as Chapter 1 of his "Selected Papers on Computer Languages". When that collection came out in 2003, he gave a talk at the Computer History Museum, under the title "A Dozen Precursors of Fortran", available here: https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10262213...…
我刚拿起了 Knuth 的《Selected Papers on Computer Languages》[1]，里面对这个主题做了一些挺有意思的探讨。不过坦白讲，大部分内容的信息密度远超我的心理准备。开头那篇关于 1950 年代之前语言的文章非常引人入胜。在…
I just picked up Knuth's Selected Papers on Computer Languages[1] which has some fun exploration of this topic. Mostly, I will confess, much denser than I am probably prepared for. The initial essay on languages before the 1950s was remarkably interesting. In…
…网上能找到（比如在 http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/stanford/cs_techRepor...）（当时 TeX 还没诞生呢），不过排版精美（且略有更新）的版本收录在 Knuth 的《Selected Papers on Computer Languages》（Knuth 论文集的第五卷）第 1 到 93 页。那篇文章中描述的许多编程语言/系统有各种不同的叫法，比如“自动编码”（automatic coding）之类的。例如，Burks 在 1950 年就用了…
…available online (e.g. at http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/stanford/cs_techRepor...) (TeX didn't exist yet), but a nicely typeset (and slightly updated) version occupies pages 1 to 93 of Knuth's Selected Papers on Computer Languages (the fifth volume of Knuth's collected papers). The many programming languages/systems described in that article go by various names like "automatic coding" and whatnot. For example, Burks in 1950 used…
…Donald Knuth 于 2003 年 12 月 3 日在计算机历史博物馆做的一场很棒的演讲（约 80 分钟演讲外加约 30 分钟 Q&A）。这篇论文经过勘误/更新后，作为第 1 到 93 页收录在《Selected Papers on Computer Languages》（Knuth 论文集的第五卷）中。演讲是在这本书出版后不久进行的，所以他讲的是书的第一章。这里的精妙构思在于（非常生动地）阐明…
…nice talk (~80 minutes followed by ~30 minutes of Q&A) that Donald Knuth gave on 2003-December-03 at the Computer History Museum. This paper was reprinted with corrections/updates as pages 1 to 93 of "Selected Papers on Computer Languages" (the fifth volume of Knuth's collected papers), and the talk was given shortly after this book came out, so he spoke about the first chapter of the book. The clever idea here is to illustrate (very)…
他的书《Selected Papers on Computer Languages》还收录了另外几篇论文，为属性文法（attribute grammars）的发明背景、发现过程及其后续应用提供了更多的背景信息。
His book "Selected Papers on Computer Languages" collects a few more papers that provide more context for the discover and subsequent application of the invention of attribute grammars.
…1976 年 8 月的技术报告（网上有，比如 https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA032123），随后“正式”作为一篇条目发表在 1977 年的一部百科全书中，而终极定稿版本则收录在其《Selected Papers on Computer Languages》的第一章。当该文集于 2003 年出版时，他在计算机历史博物馆做了一场题为《A Dozen Precursors of Fortran》的演讲，视频链接在这里：https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10262213...…
…report in August 1976 (available online e.g. https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA032123), then "for real" as a contribution to a 1977 encyclopedia, and the definitive version collected as Chapter 1 of his "Selected Papers on Computer Languages". When that collection came out in 2003, he gave a talk at the Computer History Museum, under the title "A Dozen Precursors of Fortran", available here: https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10262213...…