Contrary to what many believe, Alan Turing is not the father of the
all-purpose computer. Engineers were, independently of Turing,
already building such machines during World War II. Turing's
influence was felt more in programming after his death than in
computer building during his lifetime. The first person to receive
a Turing award was a programmer, not a computer builder. Logicians
and programmers recast Turing's notions of machine and
universality. Gradually, these recast notions helped programmers to
see the bigger picture of what they were accomplishing. Later,
problems unsolvable with a computer influenced experienced
programmers, including Edsger W. Dijkstra. Dijkstra's pioneering
work shows that both unsolvability and aesthetics have practical
relevance in software engineering. But to what extent did Dijkstra
and others depend on Turing's accomplishments? This book presents a
revealing synthesis for the modern software engineer and, by doing
so, deromanticizes Turing's role in the history of computing.
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