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L. L. Bumgarner
Part of the early story of computer programming, this writer is remembered for a technical manual on the Oak Ridge ALGOL compiler for the Control Data Corporation 1604. The work offers a rare window into how programmers and researchers documented new computing tools in the 1960s.
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About the author
L. L. Bumgarner is known from surviving bibliographic and government-research records as the author of The Oak Ridge ALGOL Compiler for the Control Data Corporation 1604: Preliminary Programmer's Manual, a 1964 technical report associated with Oak Ridge research.
Records from the U.S. Department of Energy's OSTI database also show Bumgarner as co-author, with A. A. Grau, of An Approach to ALGOL Translation, another 1964 Oak Ridge report. Taken together, these works place Bumgarner in the world of early compiler development, when ALGOL was helping shape modern programming language design.
Little biographical information appears to be readily available beyond these publications, but the surviving reports suggest a writer deeply involved in explaining complex computing systems clearly for working programmers and researchers.