I chose to read parts of it for a class a few years ago and found it surprisingly modern-sounding.
The epigraph on the foreword: "Intelligence...is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools. — Bergson"
From the preface: "Because computer science is still in an early stage of development, no well-formulated theoretical sructure exists around which problems can be defined and results organized. 'Elegance' is of prime importance, but is not easily defined or described. Reliability and maintainability are important, but they also are neither precisely defined nor easily measured."
On the inside back cover: "This issue of the Bell System Technical Journal was composed, including all tabular and displayed material and final page makeup, using the document preparation software described on pages 2115-2135. It was phototypeset using the troff program, which was written by the late Joseph F. Ossanna, Jr."
The list of contributors includes one woman, Helen D. Rovegno, but Google doesn't say anything about her.
My grandfather was a technical editor for the BSTJ and other Bell Labs publications for most of his life, but unfortunately he never really talked about it in detail to me.
http://bstj.bell-labs.com/oldfiles/year.1978/BSTJ.1978.5706-...
I chose to read parts of it for a class a few years ago and found it surprisingly modern-sounding.
The epigraph on the foreword: "Intelligence...is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools. — Bergson"
From the preface: "Because computer science is still in an early stage of development, no well-formulated theoretical sructure exists around which problems can be defined and results organized. 'Elegance' is of prime importance, but is not easily defined or described. Reliability and maintainability are important, but they also are neither precisely defined nor easily measured."
On the inside back cover: "This issue of the Bell System Technical Journal was composed, including all tabular and displayed material and final page makeup, using the document preparation software described on pages 2115-2135. It was phototypeset using the troff program, which was written by the late Joseph F. Ossanna, Jr."
The list of contributors includes one woman, Helen D. Rovegno, but Google doesn't say anything about her.
My grandfather was a technical editor for the BSTJ and other Bell Labs publications for most of his life, but unfortunately he never really talked about it in detail to me.