The manuals for the computer SAGE was built around are absolutely fascinating to read. They are basically an introduction to the digital computer written - genu

The manuals for the computer SAGE was built around are absolutely fascinating to read. They are basically an introduction to the digital computer written - genuinely - from scratch. As with many books and monographs from this period, they stand as an example of how pedagogy can actually get worse as a field progresses (authors start making assumptions). http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/sage/3-112-0_Theory_Of_Programming_Apr59.pdf http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/sage/3-112-0_Theory_Of_Prog... It's dated 1959, not that much has actually changed since then in terms of the rough outline of assembly programming. We have domain specific languages, the AN/FSQ-7 was a domain specific computer (all 60K tubes of it).