Joseph H. Wegstein

Chairman of the Short Range Committee of CODASYL that developed the programming language Cobol, and a longtime supporter of information processing standards; member of the joint ACM/GAMM committee that developed Algol.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Biographical

Sammet, Jean E., "The Early History of Cobol," in Wexelblat, Richard L., ed., History of Programming Languages, Academic Press, New York, 198 1.

Significant Publications

Wegstein, Joseph H., and Samuel N. Alexander, "Programming Scientific Calculators," Control Engineering, Vol. 3, May 1956, pp. 89-92.

UPDATES

Joseph Wegstein died August 16, 1985. (THVV, 2023)

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