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Backus, J., "Programming in America in the nineteen fifties -- some personal impressions", in . Metropolis, N., Howlett, J., Rota, G.C. (ed.), History of Computing in the Twentieth Century, Academic Press, Inc., 1980. Google
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p. 655-662 in LaPlante, P., Great Papers in Computer Science, Minneapolis/St. Paul: West Publishing, 1996
655 ;;Quote: early programming was a private arcane matter involving a programmer, a problem, a computer, a tiny store, and perhaps a few subroutines and a primitive assembly program; starting over each time, bizarre difficulties, invention, fun
659 ;;Quote: programming and debugging costs exceeded computer costs; led to FORTRAN, Speedcoding, floating point hardware, and index registers
660 ;;Quote: Backus used Post's productions to formalize IAL's grammar; simplified by Naur for ALGOL 60
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