Article ID: CBB612263502

Historians and Programmers in the 1970s: Formal Languages, the Writing of History, and Ideas of Science (2023)

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This article analyzes some of the issues raised by historians after turning to computers for historical research in the 1960s and 1970s. The main point is to enrich this context by looking into the debates computer programmers were having in their own field at the same time. In particular, the use of formal languages to enhance the theoretical basis of both practices is discussed. A second point, the debates in programming, is also highlighted: as historians were turning to computer programming, programmers were becoming historians of their own practice, engaged in methodological discussions on how to write their history.

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Authors & Contributors
Radick, Gregory
Brentjes, Sonja
Cortada, J. W.
Franco, Paul L.
Hwang, Kumju
Kaplan, Judith R. H.
Journals
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
British Journal for the History of Science
Critical Inquiry
History of Psychology
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
Lexington Books
McGill-Queen's University Press
Routledge
Springer
The MIT Press
Verso
Concepts
Language and languages
Methodology
Historians
Computers and computing
Epistemology
Social sciences
People
Garner, Richard Lynch
Foucault, Michel
Herrmann, Joachim
Knorr, Wilbur Richard
Morgan, Conway Lloyd
Müller, Friedrich Max
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
Premodern
Places
Africa
Great Britain
United States
East Germany
India
Korea
Institutions
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
History of Science Society
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