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January 2006 (Vol. 39, No. 1)
pp. 28-39
Good Ideas, through the Looking Glass
Niklaus Wirth, ETH Zurich
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Computing's history has been driven by many good and original ideas, but a few turned out to be less brilliant than they first appeared to be.
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[1] P. Naur, "Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 60," Comm. ACM, May 1960, pp. 299-314.
[2] D.E. Knuth, "The Remaining Trouble Spots in ALGOL 60," Comm. ACM, Oct. 1967, pp. 611-618.
[3] N. Wirth, Programming in Modula-2, Springer-Verlag, 1982.
[4] N. Wirth, "The Programming Language Oberon," Software— Practice and Experience, Wiley, 1988, pp. 671-691.
[5] J. McCarthy, "Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and their Computation by Machine," Comm. ACM, May 1962, pp. 184-195.
[6] A. Goldberg and D. Robson, Smalltalk-80: The Language and Its Implementation, Addison-Wesley, 1983.
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Index Terms- hardware technology, computer architectures, programming languages, programming paradigms
Citation:
Niklaus Wirth,
"Good Ideas, through the Looking Glass,"
Computer,
vol. 39,
no. 1,
pp. 28-39,
Jan.,
2006
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