Background
Plummer, Robert Patrick was born on October 30, 1941 in Beaumont, Texas, United States. Son of Otho Raymond and Elizabeth Plummer.
(from the preface: "In their initial contact with computer...)
from the preface: "In their initial contact with computer programming, many students have been exposed to only one programming language. This book is designed to take such students further into thesubject of programming by emphasizing the structures of programming languages. The book introduces the reader to five important programming languages, Algol, Fortran, Lisp, Snobol, and Pascal, and develops an appreciation of fundamental similarities and ifferences among these languages. A unifying framework is constructed that can be used to study the structure of other languages, such as Cobol, PL/I, and APL. The book also has other objectives. For instance, it illustrates several of the tools and methodologies needed to construct large programs. Because similar interpreter structures and methods of data structuring and accessing are used to model not only programming languages but also computers, the book indirectly prepares the student to study computer organization. Working programmers whose everyday jobs confine them to a single language can use this book for self-study and gain a better perspective on the tools they now use."
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Plummer, Robert Patrick was born on October 30, 1941 in Beaumont, Texas, United States. Son of Otho Raymond and Elizabeth Plummer.
Bachelor with honors, University Texas, 1964. Doctor of Philosophy, University Texas, 1970. Master of Science, Stanford University, 1966.
Assistant professor University Houston, 1970—1972, University Utah, Salt Lake City, 1972—1978. Principal investigator National Aeronautics and Space Administration Ames Research Center, Mountain View, California, 1977—1978. Senior research fellow Institute Future, Menlo Park, 1978—1983.
Vice president product development Comcraft Corporation, 1983—1986. President Robert P. Plummer Software Company, Palo Alto, 1986—1987, Plummer Research, Palo Alto, since 1987.
(from the preface: "In their initial contact with computer...)
Member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Diana Clare Saunders, March 20, 1966.