The Dawn Of Software Engineering From Turing To Dijkstra

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1. sargstuffJan 2024
   * A Brief History | Babbage Engine : https://www.computerhistory.org/babbage/history/

   * https://www.computer.org/publications/tech-news/insider-memb...

   * First OOP programming language was Simula (~1961). : ( https://history-computer.com/simula-guide/ / https://twobithistory.org/2019/01/31/simula.html )

   * simula : https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/a-detailed-1978-history-of...

   * Simula & smalltalk : https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~charlie/courses/15-214/2014-fall/sli...

   * Coding From 1849 to 2022: a Guide to The Timeline of Programming Languages by Severine Hierso https://www.computer.org/publications/tech-news/insider-memb...

   * "Hello, World!": The History of Programming Paperback by Prof James Steinberg (Author)

   * Software: A Technical History (ACM Books) by Kim W Tracy (Author)

   * The Dawn of Software Engineering: from Turing to Dijkstra by Edgar G. Daylight (Author), Niklaus Wirth (Author), et. al

   * History of Programming Languages (Acm Monograph Series) by Richard L. Wexelblat (Editor)

   * Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly)) by Federico Biancuzzi (Author), Chromatic (Author)

   Related with narrower, non-OOP focus:

   * Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think by Andy Oram (Author), Greg Wilson (Author)

   * Mythical Man-Month, The: Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick Brooks Jr. (Author)

   * 6 programming languages invented by women : https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/6-programming-languages-that-a...

   * Just what is TeX? : https://www.tug.org/whatis.html

   * MUMPS : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS

   * CAche Objectscript : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cach%C3%A9_ObjectScript

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2. fusiongyroJul 2013
   According to Daylight's book The Dawn of Software Engineering: From Turing to Dijkstra, Dijkstra actually advocated adding recursion to Algol 60 despite not having good reasons to use it himself. He felt that it made the language more general, while his detractors at the time felt that anything unnecessary (especially anything potentially having a negative performance impact) amounted to waste. Dijkstra was a vocal opponent of putting machine-specific stuff in the language. History seems to have borne out both.

   I think it's a bit of a dilution of his message to say he was a champion of comprehensibility. He was more interested in correctness, and his dream was that formal methods would be foundational to software development. That clearly didn't happen.

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