The Development of Computer Programming in Britain (1945 to 1955)
@article{CampbellKelly1982TheDO, title={The Development of Computer Programming in Britain (1945 to 1955)}, author={M. Campbell-Kelly}, journal={Annals of the History of Computing}, year={1982}, volume={4}, pages={121-139} }
By 1950 there were three influential centers of programming in Britain where working computers had been constructed: Cambridge University (the EDSAC), Manchester University (the Mark I), and the National Physical Laboratory (the Pilot ACE). At each of these centers a distinctive style of programming evolved, largely independently of the others. This paper describes how the three schools of programming influenced programming for the other stored-program computers constructed in Britain up to the… Expand
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