Abstract
Only a few years after the invention of the first programming languages, the subject flourished and a whole flurry of languages appeared. Soon programmers had to make their choices among available languages. How were they selected; were there any criteria of selection, of language quality? What is truly essential in a programming language? In spite of the convergence to a few, wide-spread, popular languages in recent years, these questions remain relevant, and the search for a "better" language continues among programmers. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003.
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Wirth, N. (2003). The essence of programming languages. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 2789, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45213-3_1
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