Programming Language Cultures

Automating Automation

Brian Lennon (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

236 Seiten

2024 | New edition
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5036-3335-3 (ISBN)

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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.

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).

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

Erscheinungsdatum	03.08.2024
Zusatzinfo	8 halftones
Verlagsort	Palo Alto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-5036-3335-7 / 1503633357
ISBN-13	978-1-5036-3335-3 / 9781503633353
Zustand	Neuware