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A Brief History of Programming Languages -
A special Byte Magazine article published for Byte's 20th anniversary special report
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Computer Languages History -
Timeline chart, 1954 to today, printable; links to homes of many languages.
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Diagram of Languages -
Two diagrams showing how many languages are related to each other.
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Historic Documents in Computer Science -
Original, historic first documents for many early programming languages, like language manualsa, scanned and converted to PDF form.
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History and Comparison of Programming Languages -
Papers on use history of: comments, labels, literals, parentheses.
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History and Evolution -
A list of computer languages and some links to compilers for these languages.
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O'Reilly: The History of Programming Languages -
A poster plots over 50 programming languages on a multi-layered, color-coded timeline.
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The Retrocomputing Museum -
Dedicated to programs that induce sensations that hover somewhere between nostalgia and nausea. The freaks, jokes, and fossils of computing history.
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The Semicolon Wars -
History and critique of disagreements over language design details, citing some specific traits; by Brian Hayes. American Scientist.
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Visual Programming Languages: A Survey -
This paper by Marat Boshernitsan includes an historical overview of some of the pioneering efforts in the field.
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Wikipedia: PL/I -
An encyclopedia description of PL/I history with many links to programming terms.
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