EAN: 9783319916705

SPRINGERBRIEFS IN HISTORY OF COMPUTING ROUTIN...

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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