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by Adrian Kosmaczewski, May 4th, 2020
The history of programming language books can be roughly divided in three distinctive eras. The first one stretches from the beginnings of programming to the mid 1970s. Programming books from those times were an often underestimated byproduct of the marketing budget of big companies such as IBM, and inherited the dry approach of most engineering books in the post-war era.
January 7th, 2019
Happy 2019 and welcome to the fourth issue of De Programmatica Ipsum, dedicated to the subject of Programming, Art Or Science? In this edition Carola Nitz explores the boundaries between science and art, Roland Leth finds the contact point between both perspectives, Graham explores the art on Donald Knuth's classic book "The Art of Computer Programming", and in this issue's subscriber-only article, Adrian reviews some interesting moments in the "Science vs. Art" debate in literature and programming history.