Jerome Garfunkel papers, 1977-1989.

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Jerome Garfunkel papers, 1977-1989.

Contains committee documents, correspondence, minutes, programming language standards drafts, and personal meeting notes from the American National Standards Institute's American COBOL Committee, Standards Planning and Requirements Committee (SPARC), and the SPARC Programming Languages Study Group, Conference on Data Systems Languages' COBOL Committee and Screen Management Task Group, and the International Organization for Standardization's International COBOL Committee and International Committee for the Preparation of Guidelines for Programming Languages. The collection documents the development of COBOL and other programming languages from 1977 through 1989, especially the revision of COBOL into COBOL 85.

7.5 cubic ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7886034

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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American National Standards Institute

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Garfunkel, Jerome.

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Jerome Garfunkel was a member of many COBOL and programming languages groups, and an observer of the Screen Management Task Group (SMTG), now called Forms Interface Management Systems (FIMS) Committee. From the guide to the Jerome Garfunkel papers, 1977-1989, (University of Minnesota Libraries. Charles Babbage Institute. x [cbi]) Member of many COBOL and programming languages standards groups. From the description of Jerome Garfunkel papers, 1977-1989. (Universit...

Conference on Data Systems Languages

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Conference on Data Systems Languages (CODASYL) was a volunteer organization to promote more effective data systems analysis, design, and implementation. Its membership consisted of individuals from industry and government involved in data processing activity. The organization was originally formed in 1959 to guide the development of a standard programming language that could be used on many computers. This effort led to the development of COBOL. From the description of Conference on ...

International Organization for Standardization

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