Reflections on programming systems : historical and philosophical aspects /: historical and philosophical aspects. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Liesbeth De Mol, Giuseppe Primiero, editors.
• Editors: De Mol, Liesbeth; Primiero, Giuseppe
• Contents: Preface -- Part I: Programming without Systems -- Chapter 1. Validity & Correctness before the OS: the case of LEO I and LEO II (Rabia Arif, Elisabetta Mori, Giuseppe Primiero) -- Chapter 2. What is an Operating System? A historical investigation (1954-1964) (Maarten Bullynck) -- Part II: Formalizing Systems -- Chapter 3. Formal Semantics of ALGOL 60: Four Descriptions in their Historical Context (Troy K. Astarte, Cliff B. Jones) -- Chapter 4. Sans-papiers as first-class citizens (Julian Rohrhuber) -- Part III: Creating Systems -- Chapter 5. Unix, Plan 9 and the Lurking Smalltalk (Stephen Kell) -- Chapter 6. Unix: Building a Development Environment from Scratch (Warren Toomey) -- Part IV: Evaluating Systems -- Chapter 7. Ethical Operating Systems (Naveen Sundar Govindarajulu, Selmer Bringsjord, Atriya Sen, Jean-Claude Paquin, Kevin O'Neill) -- Chapter 8. From Sovereign Operating Systems to the Sovereign Digital Chain (Gael Duval) -- Chapter 9. Elegance in Software (Robin K. Hill).
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (viii, 286 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 601; Computer programming -- Philosophy; Computer programming -- History; Philosophy of Technology; Operating Systems; History of Computing; History of Science; History of Technology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319972268
• Related ISBNs: 331997226X; 3319972251; 9783319972251
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