Programming Language Cultures by Brian Lennon PAPERBACK 9781503639874

Programming Language Cultures\nby Brian Lennon\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 8\u20139 working days.\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Brian Lennon\nTitle: Programming Language Cultures\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nPublisher: Stanford University Press\nPublication year: 2024\nISBN-13: 9781503639874\nISBN-10: 1503639878\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nIn this book, Brian Lennon demonstrates the power of a philological approach to the history of programming languages and their usage cultures. In chapters focused on specific programming languages such as SNOBOL and JavaScript, as well as on code comments, metasyntactic variables, the very early history of programming, and the concept of DevOps, Lennon emphasizes the histories of programming languages in their individual speci.