1. The Tears of Donald Knuth.
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Haigh, Thomas
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COMPUTER science , *COMPUTER software , *SCIENCE historiography , *COMPUTER scientists , *HISTORIANS , *HISTORY - Abstract
The article looks at issues in the history of computing and computer science. The author assesses computer scientist Donald Knuth's criticisms of historiographic trends in the history of computer science, particularly as described by computer scientist Martin Campbell-Kelly in a 2007 paper entitled "The History of the History of Software." Topics include computer scientists versus historians as researchers on the history of computing.
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- 2015
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