Re: debuggers - request for information

pardo@cs.washington.edu (David Keppel) writes:
>%T The diagnosis of mistakes in programmes on the EDSAC
>%A S. Gill
>%J Proceedings of the Royal Society,
>Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences
>%V 206
>%N 1087
>%P 538-554
>%D 22 May 1951
>%I Cambridge University Press
>%C London and New York
>%K debugging
>%K fast breakpoints
>%X This is great, it has everything about debugging, and it's from 1950!


The moderator <compilers-request@iecc.com> writes:
>[Don't miss that EDSAC paper. Every important idea in computer science was
>already known by 1960. We've just been working out the details. If you push
>me, I might go to 1965. -John]


The article is, of course, hard to get. First, I believe that
it's library cataloge entry may be under ``The Royal Socitey of
London''. Second, my copy came via the UC library system, but
I looked just now and don't see it in MELVYL. Third, I've put
a cruddy scanned version online at


ftp://ftp.cs.washington.edu/pub/pardo/gill.d/gill-00.html


There's individual pages and a tar file containing the
individual pages; they're TIFF format. I think distribution
is fair use under copyright laws but please let me know if
you disagree and I'll remove it.


;-D on ( Silly wabbit, bugs is for kids! Heh-heh-heh-heh. ) Pardo


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