Publisher's Synopsis
The book aims at the general reader or student with some general mathematical background knowledge and some experience with computers who needs a short offline encyclopedia.This book also examines the evolution of programming languages and the history of software engineering, in addition to such revolutions in computing as the invention of the World Wide Web.This clearly written and broad-ranging text both gives the reader a flavour of the history and stimulates further study in the subject. As such, it will be of great benefit to students of computer science, while also capturing the interest of the more casual reader.
