Issues in the history of computing

  • Authors:
  • Michael S. Mahoney

  • Affiliations:
  • Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

  • Venue:
  • History of programming languages---II
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

It should be easy to do the history of computing. After all, computing began less than 50 years ago, and we have crowds of eye witnesses, mountains of documents, storerooms of original equipment, and the computer itself to process all the information those sources generate. What's so hard? What are we missing?