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| A Brief History of Programming Languages A special Byte Magazine article published for Byte's 20th anniversary special reporthttp://www.byte.com/art/9509/sec7/art19.htm |
| Java: Cornerstone of the Global Network Enterprise? 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 (diagram) A Computer languages timeline, 1954 to present, printable chart. Includes links to home page for many languages.http://www.levenez.com/lang/ |
| Diagram of Languages Two diagrams showing how many languages are related to each other.http://merd.sourceforge.net/pixel/language-study/diagram.html |
| Historic Documents in Computer Science 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/ |
| Pascal history A brief look at the birth, life, and death of the Pascal programming language.http://web.mit.edu/taoyue/www/tutorials/pascal/history.html |
| Comment Statements The history and use of comments in programming languages, from the beginning of programming to the present day.http://www.gavilan.edu/csis/languages/comments.html |
| Literals The history and use of literals (or constants) in programming languages, from the beginning of programming to the present day.http://www.gavilan.edu/csis/languages/literals.html |
| Wikipedia: PL/I An encyclopedia description of PL/I history with many links to programming terms.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL/I_programming_language |
| C++ History 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 |
| The History of Computer Programming Languages Short concise article on programming language history with some links.http://www.princeton.edu/~ferguson/adw/programming_languages.shtml |
| Java, timelines A short history of early Java from 1991 to 1995.http://ils.unc.edu/blaze/java/javahist.html |
| History of Ada Contains a large number of links to historical documents and notes about early Ada.http://www.adahome.com/History/ |
| Visual Programming Languages: A Survey This paper by Marat Boshernitsan includes an historical overview of some of the pioneering efforts in the field.http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~maratb/cs263/ |
| Timeline of computer history - Software and Languages Has many links to important events in programming language history.http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/timeline.php?timeline_category=sl |
| History and Comparing Programming Languages The files at this site compare programming language statements in several different languages tracing the statement from early languages to present languages.http://www.gavilan.edu/csis/languages/history.html |
| Web Programming Languages 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 |
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