Brian Lennon: Programming Language Cultures

Cover: 9781503639874 | Programming Language Cultures | Automating Automation | Brian Lennon

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Beschreibung

In 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 specificities over their abstract formal or structural characteristics, viewing them as carriers and sometimes shapers of specific cultural histories. The book's philological approach to programming languages presents a natural, sensible, and rigorous way for researchers trained in the humanities to perform research on computing in a way that draws on their own expertise.

Combining programming knowledge with a humanistic analysis of the social and historical dimensions of computing, Lennon offers researchers in literary studies, STS, media and digital studies, and technical fields the first technically rigorous approach to studying programming languages from a humanities-based perspective.

Zusammenfassung

Brian Lennon is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Passwords: Philology, Security, Authentication (2018) and In Babel's Shadow: Multilingual Literatures, Monolingual States (2010).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Eating the World
1. A Third Language: Computing, Translation, Automation
2. Really Reading the Code, Really Reading the Comments
3. Etymologies of Foo
4. Snobol: A Rememory of Programming Language History
5. JavaScript Affogato: Negotiations of Expertise
6. DevOps Fiction: Workforce Relations in Technology Industry Novels
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2024
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe , Medienwissenschaften
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9781503639874
ISBN-10:	1503639878
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Lennon, Brian
Hersteller:	Stanford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, ?-4831 GR Breda, gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk
Maße:	226 x 148 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Brian Lennon
Erscheinungsdatum:	27.08.2024
Gewicht:	0,334 kg