Re: poll ideas quest 2015

UPDATE: if selected for publication, I strongly urge adding Tux' contribution (System V, right after Fortran listing) and both of davies' (between the APL book and Kernighan&Richie to maintain chronology of pub dates). I'm not doing it here to maintain the integrity (and missed opportunities) of this node.

The oldest computer book (still) on my shelves or on my digital media is ...

A Programming Language, 1962, Iverson
The C Programming Language, 1978, Kernighan & Ritchie
Z80 Asembly Language Programming, 1979, Leventhal
TheSOURCE User's Manual, 1979, n/a (Extra points for the brown, 3-ring-binder edition)
The C Primer, 1983, Hancock & Kreiger
Interactive Fortran 77, 1984, A Hands on Approach Chivers & Sleightholme
Turbo-Pascal - 1991 Edition, 1992, Savitch
Perl.1 man page, 1991, Wall (a re-organized web version of the "perl.1" man page
for PERL version 4: extra points for docs for Perl v. 1, 2 or 3. )

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Re^2: poll ideas quest 2015 by Tux (Canon) on Apr 01, 2015 at 09:49 UTC
I still have the M6800 assembly manual, but what I really miss in this list is a Unix book, like System V - Interface definition, 1986, AT&T At home, in the attick, I must also have the three volume bound version of the System III manuals. Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn	[reply]
Re^2: poll ideas quest 2015 (old computer books) by davies (Prior) on Apr 01, 2015 at 10:41 UTC
Programming the 1900 series in COBOL, an ICL training manual from 1974. By publication date (1976), I think my second oldest is one more people are likely to have, namely Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs, Niklaus Wirth, Prentice Hall, 1976, ISBN 0-13-022418-9 Regards, John Davies	[reply]
Re^2: poll ideas quest 2015 by chacham (Prior) on Apr 01, 2015 at 17:43 UTC
> I'm not doing it here to maintain the integrity (and missed opportunities) of this node. /me is confused. What does that mean? Do you mean that you don't want to change the list chronologically, or just at all? Or does it mean that you want a clear record of who added what? That's doesn't sound right as you can keep those noted with update remarks. I'm so confused.	[reply]
Re^3: poll ideas quest 2015 by ww (Archbishop) on Apr 01, 2015 at 18:20 UTC
Clear record. Hope that clarifies, but by way of explanation: I did not chose to edit suggestions from others into a node I created because that would be tantamount to plagarism or fraud. And yes, I could put edit markup in while aligning other contributions chronologically, but that might make the list less easily readable... and should OGB decide to use this one, would almost certainly make doing so more work for him. Spirit of the Monastery	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: poll ideas quest 2015 by chacham (Prior) on Apr 01, 2015 at 18:35 UTC
But why not just put a record on the bottom of what was added, and by who?	[reply]
Re^5: poll ideas quest 2015 by ww (Archbishop) on Apr 02, 2015 at 01:41 UTC
Re^4: poll ideas quest 2015 by Arunbear (Prior) on Jul 01, 2015 at 15:29 UTC
What is OGB? I was going to post your poll idea today (and it would be less work to do so if all the options were in one node), but I noticed some links were broken e.g. the Turbo Pascal one, or likely to break soon e.g. the Z80 one. Also the "K&R" link goes to the 1988 edition, so it may be better to link to Wikipedia where possible. If you fix the links, it can be used in the near future.	[reply]
Re^5: poll ideas quest 2015 by ww (Archbishop) on Jul 01, 2015 at 21:40 UTC


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