TY  - BOOK
AU  - Priestley,Mark
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Routines of Substitution: John von Neumann's Work on Software Development, 1945-1948 
T2  - SpringerBriefs in History of Computing,
SN  - 9783319916712
AV  - QA76.17 
U1  - 004.09 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Computers
KW  - Computer programming
KW  - History
KW  - History of Computing
KW  - Programming Techniques
KW  - History of Science
N1  - Acceso multiusuario; Introduction -- Sorting and Collating -- EDVAC and its Codes -- The 1945 Meshing Routine -- Planning and Coding -- Subroutines -- Contexts and Conclusions -- Appendix A: Von Neumann's Second EDVAC Code -- Appendix B: Von Neumann's Meshing Routine Manuscript
N2  - This work is a historical and philosophical study of the programming work carried out by John von Neumann in the period 1945-8. At the heart of the book is an examination of a manuscript featuring the earliest known surviving example of von Neumann's coding, a routine written in 1945 to 'mesh' two sequences of data and intended to be part of a larger program implementing the algorithm now known as mergesort. The text of the manuscript itself, along with a preliminary document describing the code he used to write this program, are reproduced as appendices. The program is approached in three chapters describing the historical background to von Neumann's work, the significance of the sorting application itself, and the development of the EDVAC, the machine for which the program was written. The subsequent chapters widen the focus again, discussing the subsequent evolution of the program and the crucial topic of subroutines, before concluding by situating von Neumann's work in a number of wider contexts. The book also offers a unifying philosophical interpretation of von Neumann's approach to coding
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