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Has papers on history of programming language comments, literals, and labels.
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History and comparison of programming languages This sites contains files on the history of computer programming language statements. The files compare programming language statements in several different languages tracing the statement from early languages to present languages. The files are used in advanced programming classes so...A special Byte Magazine article published for Byte's 20th anniversary special report
http://www.byte.com/art/9509/sec7/art19.htm
Brian Youman's paper on Java including some historical notes: "Java: Cornerstone of the Global Network Enterprise?"
http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Youmans.Java.html
A Computer languages timeline, 1954 to present, printable chart. Includes links to home page for many languages.
http://www.levenez.com/lang/
Two diagrams showing how many languages are related to each other.
http://merd.sourceforge.net/pixel/language-study/diagram.html
Original, historic first documents for many early programming languages, like language manualsa, scanned and converted to PDF form.
http://www.fh-jena.de/~kleine/history/
An encyclopedia description of PL/I history with many links to programming terms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL/I_programming_language
A researched article about the history of the C++ programming language, including information provided by Bjarne Stroustrup. Bibiliography and related links.
http://www.hitmill.com/programming/cpp/cppHistory.asp
Short concise article on programming language history with some links.
http://www.princeton.edu/~fergus.../adw/programming_languages.shtml
A short history of early Java from 1991 to 1995.
http://ils.unc.edu/blaze/java/javahist.html
Contains a large number of links to historical documents and notes about early Ada.
http://www.adahome.com/History/
This paper by Marat Boshernitsan includes an historical overview of some of the pioneering efforts in the field.
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CS263: Design of Programming Languages This survey was originally written as a term project paper for the graduate course on programming language design in December 1997. As was required by the course instructor, we uploaded the report to a web page, received our grades, and...Has many links to important events in programming language history.
http://www.computerhistory.org/t...imeline.php?timeline_category=sl
Characteristics, alternatives and history of programming languages for the Web - insight into the context in which each language is used.
http://www.freelance-help.com/web-programming.php
A brief look at the birth, life, and death of the Pascal programming language.
http://www.taoyue.com/tutorials/pascal/history.html
A list of computer languages and some links to compilers for these languages.
http://www.scriptol.org/history.php
A poster plots over 50 programming languages on a multi-layered, color-coded timeline.
http://oreilly.com/news/languageposter_0504.html