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Wikipedia: PL/I
An encyclopedia description of PL/I history with many links to programming terms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL/I_programm...
Computer History Museum Timeline: Software & Languages
Many links to important events in programming language history; text, photos, sorted by year.
http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/ti...
History and Comparison of Programming Languages
Papers on use history of: comments, labels, literals, parentheses.
http://www.gavilan.edu/csis/languages/hist...
History and Evolution
A list of computer languages and some links to compilers for these languages.
http://www.scriptol.org/history.php
A Brief History of Programming Languages
A special Byte Magazine article published for Byte's 20th anniversary special report
http://www.byte.com/art/9509/sec7/art19.ht...
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-programm...
Diagram of Languages
Two diagrams showing how many languages are related to each other.
http://merd.sourceforge.net/pixel/language...
Computer Languages History
Timeline chart, 1954 to today, printable; links to homes of many languages.
http://www.levenez.com/lang/
O'Reilly: The History of Programming Languages
A poster plots over 50 programming languages on a multi-layered, color-coded timeline.
http://oreilly.com/news/languageposter_050...
Pascal History
Brief account of birth, life, and death of Pascal language.
http://www.taoyue.com/tutorials/pascal/his...
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....
A Brief History of Pascal
Article describes basic developments of Algol, Pascal, Modula-2, Simula, Smalltalk, Cedar, Oberon, Component Pascal, BlackBox Component Builder. By Oberon Microsystems, Inc.
http://burks.bton.ac.uk/burks/language/obe...
History of Ada
Contains a large number of links to historical documents and notes about early Ada.
http://www.adahome.com/History/
The History of Computer Programming Languages
Short concise article on programming language history with some links.
http://www.princeton.edu/~ferguson/adw/pro...
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/
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/
Java History
Treats early origins, from 1991 to 1995.
http://ils.unc.edu/blaze/java/javahist.htm...
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/cpp...
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