'CPL Pending - (Language and General)' | Manuscripts and Archives at Oxford University

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Title

'CPL Pending - (Language and General)'

Shelfmark

MS. Eng. misc. b. 271/C.174

Summary

Miscellaneous notes and narratives. Includes:

Manuscript notes on 'Abstract Objects, Written Expressions, Machine Representations', 28 November 1962.

Notes and queries 'for next CPL Language Meeting', n.d.

Three-page manuscript draft of letter to editor, Communications of the A.C.M. about 'the difficulty of inventing and describing a major programming language', in which Strachey discusses the problems encountered by the CPL team.