Programming Language Cultures: Automating Automation - Hardcover

Lennon, Brian

 
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In this book, Brian Lennon demonstrates the power of a philological approach to the history of programming languages and their usage cultures. In chapters focused on specific programming languages such as SNOBOL and JavaScript, as well as on code comments, metasyntactic variables, the very early history of programming, and the concept of DevOps, Lennon emphasizes the histories of programming languages in their individual specificities over their abstract formal or structural...

About the Author

Brian Lennon is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Passwords: Philology, Security, Authentication (2018) and In Babel's Shadow: Multilingual Literatures, Monolingual States (2010).

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  • PublisherStanford University Press
  • Publication date2024
  • ISBN 10 1503633357
  • ISBN 13 9781503633353
  • BindingHardcover
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages236

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