{"id":22,"date":"2004-05-31T16:49:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-31T23:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/archives\/2004\/05\/31\/22\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T09:55:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T16:55:58","slug":"jean-sammet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/archives\/2004\/05\/31\/22\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean Sammet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/archives\/2004\/03\/21\/16\/\">Tom Van Vleck<\/a> had suggested I contact <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhistory.org\/profile\/jean-sammet\/\">Jean Samme<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerhistory.org\/events\/hall_of_fellows\/sammet\/\">t<\/a>. Jean has <a href=\"https:\/\/dblp.org\/pid\/14\/5331.html\">publis<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informatik.uni-trier.de\/~ley\/db\/indices\/a-tree\/s\/Sammet:Jean_E=.html\">hed<\/a> extensively on programming languages and their history. (Her book, <em>Programming Languages: History and Fundamentals<\/em>, has been called the definitive work on early computer language development.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I eventually found a current email address for her; today she responded that she didn&#8217;t know where to find the Fortran source, but suggested I contact Fran Allen and J.A.N. Lee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Van Vleck had suggested I contact Jean Sammet. Jean has published extensively on programming languages and their history. (Her book, Programming Languages: History and Fundamentals, has been called the definitive work on early computer language development.) I eventually found a current email address for her; today she responded that she didn&#8217;t know where to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/archives\/2004\/05\/31\/22\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jean Sammet&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fortran","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1311,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/1311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}