`The Dawn of Software Engineering: from Turing to Dijkstra' --- by Edgar Daylight
Published by Lonely Scholar: www.lonelyscholar.com/dawn
"A rich and fascinating account of the time when software engineering was a compelling intellectual discipline at the center of computer science."
--- John C. Reynolds, CMU.
"wonderfully novel, very readable, and most engaging"
--- Grady Booch, IBM Fellow
Did Alan Turing play a major role in the advent of the all-purpose computer? Did Turing Award winners, like Edsger W. Dijkstra, depend on his famous accomplishments? In his well-researched book Edgar G. Daylight deromanticizes Turing's & logic's role in the history of computing. Dijkstra's pioneering work in compilers lies at the heart of modern-day computers. The book vividly describes how & why Dijkstra's ideas stood out among those of his contemporaries.
Includes interviews with Turing Award winners Tony Hoare, Niklaus Wirth, Peter Naur, and Barbara Liskov.
Available from most bookstores, including Amazon (www.amazon.com/dp/9491386026) and Barnes & Noble (www.barnesandnoble.com/w/books/1109990974).
Extensive summary available from the author's blog: www.dijkstrascry.com/node/81
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