Software Superheroes

From Fortran to the Internet Age

Steve Lohr

248 pages, parution le 04/04/2002

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Résumé

Go to chronicles the untold history of software and its maverick creators. Drawing upon original reporting and interviews, Steve Lohr gives us an intimate portrait of the peculiar kind of genius that has always been drawn to this unique blend of art, science, and engineering - imaginative originals like Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, whose all-night stints gave rise to the Unix operating system and C programming language that loosened the grip of IBM ; Charles Simonyi, whose childhood as an Erector-set fanatic in Communist Hungary led to his becoming the émigré architect of the spectacularly successful Word software ; and James Gosling, whose dream of 'virtual code' that could run on any machine, became Java, the Internet programming language.

Through these and many other lively portraits, we see what it takes to build new worlds in code. This remarkable piece of intellectual history shows us how the creators of software transformed the world, and points to the ways they will change our future.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction
FORTRAN
The Hard Lessons of the Sixties
Breaking Big Iron's Grip
Programming for the Millions
The European Influence
A Computer of My Own
Computing for the Masses
Programming for Everyman
Java
There Has To Be a Better Way

Afterword
Notes
References
Index

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Profile Books
Auteur(s)	Steve Lohr
Parution	04/04/2002
Nb. de pages	248
Format	15,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	377g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781861972439