About This Title:

• Pages: 270
• Published: October 2024
• ISBN: 9798888650639
• In Print
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Rediscovering the Tools That Built the Future:

• Explores 7 older computer languages that offer new ideas to change programming thinking
• These languages were invented before current C-style syntax and OO biases, allowing for more imagination
• Finds their insights thought-provoking and ideas inspiring to try different programming ways
• Examples include a text manipulation language with every line as a state machine event and a concurrent language using actors

What You Need:

• Various software tools and compilers available for enthusiasts
• Guidance mainly for Linux users to access older programming languages
• Includes m4 (in GNU Autoconf system), APL, Forth, Simula, SNOBOL4.2 (runs with DOSBox MS-DOS emulator), KRoC (for 32-bit architectures or in docker), and Starset's modern implementation maintained by Suffolk University
• Links to repositories of development tools provided

Resources:

• Errata, typos, suggestions
• Source Code (zip file)

Releases:

• P1.0 2024/10/16
• B4.0 2024/09/26
• B3.0 2024/07/30
• B2.0 2024/04/04

Author:

• Dmitry Zinoviev, a professor of Computer Science at Suffolk University in Boston
• Has a dual degree in Physics and Computer Science
• Passionate about modern C and Python programming, complex network analysis, etc.
• Author of the first modern implementation of the Starset language