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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.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
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/paper/paper.html
Java, timelines
A short history of early Java from 1991 to 1995.
http://ils.unc.edu/blaze/java/javahist.html
Ada history, with links
Contains a large number of links to historical documents and notes about early Ada.
http://www.adahome.com/History/
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