From: derek@shape-of-code.com   
      
   All,   
      
   What is the earliest detailed description of the   
   workings of a compiler?   
      
   One from 18 April 1958   
   Internal Translator (IT) A compiler for the 650   
   http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/650/CarnegieInternalTranslator.pdf   
      
   There were lots of compilers by 1957, but where is their   
   internal documentation?   
   https://shape-of-code.com/2017/05/21/evidence-for-28-possible-co   
   pilers-in-1957/   
      
   [Good question. Here's a bunch of stuff about FORTRAN, with some   
   details in the papers and lecture notes. Start with the 1957 WJCC   
   preprint:   
      
   https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/FORTRAN/   
      
   Chapter 7 of this 1958 FLOW-MATIC manual has some internal description:   
      
   http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/univac/flow-matic/U1518_FLOW-MATIC_   
   rogramming_System_1958.pdf   
   -John]   
      
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