A Brief History of Programming Languages «
http://www.byte.com/art/9509/sec7/art19.htm | | A special byte magazine article published for byte's 20th anniversary special report |
Computer Languages History «
http://www.levenez.com/lang/ | | Timeline chart , 1954 to today , printable; links to homes of many languages. |
Diagram of Languages «
http://merd.sourceforge.net/pixel/language-study/diagram.html | | Two diagrams showing how many languages are related to each other. |
Historic Documents in Computer Science «
http://www.fh-jena.de/~kleine/history/ | | Original , historic first documents for many early programming languages , like language manualsa , scanned and converted to pdf form. |
History and Comparison of Programming Languages «
http://www.gavilan.edu/csis/languages/history.html | | Papers on use history of: comments , labels , literals , parentheses. |
History and Evolution «
http://www.scriptol.org/history.php | | A list of computer languages and some links to compilers for these languages. |
O'Reilly: The History of Programming Languages «
http://oreilly.com/news/languageposter_0504.html | | A poster plots over 50 programming languages on a multi-layered , color-coded timeline. |
The History of Computer Programming Languages «
http://www.princeton.edu/~ferguson/adw/programming_languages.shtml | | Short concise article on programming language history with some links. |
The Semicolon Wars «
http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/51982/ | | History and critique of disagreements over language design details , citing some specific traits; by brian hayes. american scientist. |
Visual Programming Languages: A Survey «
http://nitsan.org/~maratb/cs263/ | | This paper by marat boshernitsan includes an historical overview of some of the pioneering efforts in the field. |
Wikipedia: PL/I «
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL/I_programming_language | | An encyclopedia description of pl/i history with many links to programming terms. |
