• DOI:10.1145/361604.361612
Corpus ID: 207685720

Computer programming as an art

@article{Knuth1974ComputerPA,
  title={Computer programming as an art},
  author={D. Knuth},
  journal={Commun. ACM},
  year={1974},
  volume={17},
  pages={667-673}
}

• D. Knuth
• Published 1974
• Computer Science
• Commun. ACM

When Communications of the ACM began publication in 1959, the members of ACM's Editorial Board made the following remark as they described the purposes of ACM's periodicals [2]: “If computer programming is to become an important part of computer research and development, a transition of programming from an art to a disciplined science must be effected.” Such a goal has been a continually recurring theme during the ensuing years; for example, we read in 1970 of the “first steps toward… Expand