“If you're coming from a computer science background ... that's so much easier to do in a high-level textual language than in [a graphical programming language like] Ladder Diagram, where you're going ...

This new diagram-based "language" is heavily based on something ... do with designing the underlying architecture of computer algorithms—the programs that will actually end up sensing and ...

The many similarities between the ladder diagrams used to program PLCs and the ... and as people in the electrical industry become more comfortable with computer programming, the use of high-level ...

"Some mathematicians have a talent for drawing beautiful diagrams by hand ... use familiar mathematical language while the computer crunches the instructions. A new software tool from Carnegie ...

Kurtz, operating a General Electric GE-225 mainframe, executed the first program ... able to use a computer in the classroom whenever appropriate." That meant both giving them a language that ...

By Kenneth R. Rosen Thomas E. Kurtz, a mathematician and inventor of the simplified computer programming language known as BASIC, which allowed students to operate early computers and eventually ...