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Reflections on Programming Systems - Historical and Philosophical Aspects (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Reflections on Programming Systems - Historical and Philosophical Aspects (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Series: Philosophical Studies Series, 133
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This book presents a historical and philosophical analysis of
programming systems, intended as large computational systems like,
for instance, operating systems, programmed to control processes.
The introduction to the volume emphasizes the contemporary need of
providing a foundational analysis of such systems, rooted in a
broader historical and philosophical discussion. The different
chapters are grouped around three major themes. The first concerns
the early history of large systems developed against the background
of issues related to the growing semantic gap between hardware and
code. The second revisits the fundamental issue of complexity of
large systems, dealt with by the use of formal methods and the
development of `grand designs' like Unix. Finally, a third part
considers several issues related to programming systems in the real
world, including chapters on aesthetical, ethical and political
issues. This book will interest researchers from a diversity of
backgrounds. It will appeal to historians, philosophers, as well as
logicians and computer scientists who want to engage with topics
relevant to the history and philosophy of programming and more
specifically the role of programming systems in the foundations of
computing.
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