Go To: The Story of the Math Majors, Bridge Players, Engineers, Chess Wizards, Maverick Scientists, and Iconoclasts-- the Programmers Who Created the Software Revolution cover
Go To: The Story of the Math Majors, Bridge Players, Engineers, Chess Wizards, Maverick Scientists, and Iconoclasts-- the Programmers Who Created the Software Revolution
by Steve Lohr
ISBN: 0465042260
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bhaumik · 2013-12-29 · Original thread
I highly recommend "Go To" by Steve Lohr [1]. The book follows a chronological path from the pre-Hopper/Turing era through Apache and the early open source movement. We learn history of the following languages: FORTRAN, COBAL, Unix, C, BASIC, Visual Basic, Algol, Pascal, C++. Also covered are the founding stories of IBM, Microsoft and Macintosh and their "business" practices.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Engineers-Scientists-Iconoclasts---Pro...