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B.C.S. Committee on programming notation

MS. Eng. misc. b. 285/E.10

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Title

B.C.S. Committee on programming notation

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MS. Eng. misc. b. 285/E.10

Summary

Folder of correspondence and papers regarding the work of the Committee. Topics include:

Proposals of the Association for Computing Machinery and the German Association for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics on standardization.

ALGOL and the November 1959 meeting in Paris.

The Automatic Programming Information Centre in Brighton.

An Expanded Alphabet.

Notification of meetings.

Disbandment of the Committee, etc.

Much of the material consists of carbons of letters written by Gill on behalf of the Committee or of photocopies of letters received.

Date

1958-1962

Language

English

Physical extent

1 file

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Collection contents

Papers and correspondence of Christopher Strachey

Committees and Societies

British Computer Society (B.C.S.)

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