Founding fathers need to know, honor and remember http://ershov.iis.nsk.su/ershov/russian/scient.html . Very much in the theory of compilation and transformation of programs for the purpose of optimization was made by our programmers, and Academician Ershov did much of this. Here, I came across an archive of his manuscripts. Interestingly, the Man worked from 56 to 88, so you can see how the views on programming have changed. Happy reading.