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Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: "Rob Slade, doting grandpa of Ryan & Trevor"
<roberts@MUKLUK.HQ.DECUS.CA>
Subject: Re: Language
X-To: ataraxy@erols.com
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From: MX%"ataraxy@erols.com" 3-AUG-1997 19:29:06.06
>mental processes. I do not know of histories of this evolution other than those written on a superficial level. If someone can recommend a book that attempts to probe this development more deeply I would greatly hearing of it. I'm sure a lot is hidden within funding proposals
To hear is to obey.
BKHOPL.RVW 960722
"History of Programming Languages", Richard L. Wexelblat (ed.), 1981, 0-12-745040-8
%E Richard L. Wexelblat
%C 1300 Boylston Street, Chestnut Hill, MA 02167 %D 1981
%G 0-12-745040-8
%I Academic Press
%O +1-617-232-0500 +1-800-3131277 app@acad.com %P 758
%T "History of Programming Languages"
As valuable as is the second book of the same title (cf. BKHOPLII.RVW), this original is far the more interesting and entertaining. (Having been privileged to hear the tapes of the 1978 conference that this volume catalogues, I can actually hear Grace Murray Hopper's opening "I'm appalled at you, in a way. You're all `Establishment'.")
While the later conference covered more current languages such as C and C++, here we have the older, and in many cases more fundamental, Fortran, Algol, LISP, COBOL, APT, Jovial, GPSS, SIMULA (possibly the first really object- oriented language, extending some Algol concepts), JOSS, BASIC (of infamous memory), PL/I, SNOBOL, and APL.
The preprint paper, session transcript, discussant's remarks, and question and answer periods are included. (The banquet speeches aren't, which is a bit of a shame.)
copyright Robert M. Slade, 1996 BKHOPL.RVW 960722
BKHOPLII.RVW 960621
"History of Programming Languages", Thomas J. Bergin/Richard G. Gibson (ed), 1995, 0-201-89502-1, U$49.44
%E Thomas J. Bergin
%E Richard G. Gibson
%C 1 Jacob Way, Reading, MA 01867-9984
%D 1995
%G 0-201-89502-1
%I Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.
%O U$49.44 800-822-6339 617-944-3700 Fax: (617) 944-7273 bkexpress@aw.com %P 864
%T "History of Programming Languages"
This is a collection of papers and materials from the Second ACM SIGPLAN History of Programming Languages Conference (HOPL-II), April 20-23, 1993. The conference had both invited and submitted papers, and covered Ada, Algol 68, C, C++, CLU, Discrete Simulation Languages, FORMAC, Forth, Icon, Lisp, Concurrent Pascal, Pascal, and Smalltalk. Each language has a paper on its history, and may also have a transcript of the presentation of the paper at the conference, reaction from a discussant, and a transcript of the question and answer period at the conference.
Invited papers had at least two years to prepare, as well as assistance in terms of the questions to be answered and advice on how best to write a paper for the historical record. In spite of this, there is a lot of variation in the style and content of the papers. Some essays concentrate almost exclusively on technical details. Still, overall there is a wealth of material and insight, as well as amusing nuggets of historical trivia.
copyright Robert M. Slade, 1996 BKHOPLII.RVW 960621
======================
roberts@decus.ca rslade@vcn.bc.ca slade@freenet.victoria.bc.ca
link to virus, book info at http://www.freenet.victoria.bc.ca/techrev/rms.html Author "Robert Slade's Guide to Computer Viruses" 0-387-94663-2 (800-SPRINGER)
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Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: "Rob Slade, doting grandpa of Ryan & Trevor"
<roberts@MUKLUK.HQ.DECUS.CA>
Subject: Re: Language
X-To: ataraxy@erols.com
______________________________________________________________________
Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
From: MX%"ataraxy@erols.com" 3-AUG-1997 19:29:06.06
>mental processes. I do not know of histories of this evolution other than those written on a superficial level. If someone can recommend a book that attempts to probe this development more deeply I would greatly hearing of it. I'm sure a lot is hidden within funding proposals
To hear is to obey.
BKHOPL.RVW 960722
"History of Programming Languages", Richard L. Wexelblat (ed.), 1981, 0-12-745040-8
%E Richard L. Wexelblat
%C 1300 Boylston Street, Chestnut Hill, MA 02167 %D 1981
%G 0-12-745040-8
%I Academic Press
%O +1-617-232-0500 +1-800-3131277 app@acad.com %P 758
%T "History of Programming Languages"
As valuable as is the second book of the same title (cf. BKHOPLII.RVW), this original is far the more interesting and entertaining. (Having been privileged to hear the tapes of the 1978 conference that this volume catalogues, I can actually hear Grace Murray Hopper's opening "I'm appalled at you, in a way. You're all `Establishment'.")
While the later conference covered more current languages such as C and C++, here we have the older, and in many cases more fundamental, Fortran, Algol, LISP, COBOL, APT, Jovial, GPSS, SIMULA (possibly the first really object- oriented language, extending some Algol concepts), JOSS, BASIC (of infamous memory), PL/I, SNOBOL, and APL.
The preprint paper, session transcript, discussant's remarks, and question and answer periods are included. (The banquet speeches aren't, which is a bit of a shame.)
copyright Robert M. Slade, 1996 BKHOPL.RVW 960722
BKHOPLII.RVW 960621
"History of Programming Languages", Thomas J. Bergin/Richard G. Gibson (ed), 1995, 0-201-89502-1, U$49.44
%E Thomas J. Bergin
%E Richard G. Gibson
%C 1 Jacob Way, Reading, MA 01867-9984
%D 1995
%G 0-201-89502-1
%I Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.
%O U$49.44 800-822-6339 617-944-3700 Fax: (617) 944-7273 bkexpress@aw.com %P 864
%T "History of Programming Languages"
This is a collection of papers and materials from the Second ACM SIGPLAN History of Programming Languages Conference (HOPL-II), April 20-23, 1993. The conference had both invited and submitted papers, and covered Ada, Algol 68, C, C++, CLU, Discrete Simulation Languages, FORMAC, Forth, Icon, Lisp, Concurrent Pascal, Pascal, and Smalltalk. Each language has a paper on its history, and may also have a transcript of the presentation of the paper at the conference, reaction from a discussant, and a transcript of the question and answer period at the conference.
Invited papers had at least two years to prepare, as well as assistance in terms of the questions to be answered and advice on how best to write a paper for the historical record. In spite of this, there is a lot of variation in the style and content of the papers. Some essays concentrate almost exclusively on technical details. Still, overall there is a wealth of material and insight, as well as amusing nuggets of historical trivia.
copyright Robert M. Slade, 1996 BKHOPLII.RVW 960621
======================
roberts@decus.ca rslade@vcn.bc.ca slade@freenet.victoria.bc.ca
link to virus, book info at http://www.freenet.victoria.bc.ca/techrev/rms.html Author "Robert Slade's Guide to Computer Viruses" 0-387-94663-2 (800-SPRINGER)
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