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Distributed for the Center for the Study of Language and Information

Donald E. Knuth

Selected Papers on Computer Languages

610 pages,  6 x 9  © 2003
Series: Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes

Cloth $75.00

ISBN: 9781575863818   Published October 2002

Paper $35.00

ISBN: 9781575863825   Published October 2002

1. The Early Development of Programming Languages
2. Backus Normal Form versus Backus Naur Form
3. Teaching ALGOL 60
4. ALGOL 60 Confidential
5. SMALGOL-61
6. Man or Boy?
7. A Proposal for Input-Output Conventions in ALGOL 60
8. The Remaining Trouble Spots in ALGOL 60
9. SOL – A Symbolic Language for Systems Simulation
10. A Formal Definition of SOL
11. The Science of Programming Languages
12. Programming Languages for Automata
13. A Characterization of Parenthesis Languages
14. Top-Down Syntax Analysis
15. On the Translation of Languages from Left to Right
16. Context-Free Multilanguages
17. Semantics of Context-Free Languages
18. Examples of Formal Semantics
19. The Genesis of Attribute Grammars
20. A History of Writing Compilers
21. RUNCIBLE – Algebraic Translation on a Limited Computer
22. Computer-Drawn Flowcharts
23. Notes on Avoiding ‘go to’ Statements
24. An Empirical Study of FORTRAN Programs
25. Efficient Coroutine Generation of Constrained Gray Sequences
Index
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