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- A brief look at the birth, life, and death of the Pascal programming language.
- Has many links to important events in programming language history.
- A special Byte Magazine article published for Byte's 20th anniversary special report
- The history and use of literals (or constants) in programming languages, from the beginning of programming to the present day.
- A Computer languages timeline, 1954 to present, printable chart. Includes links to home page for many languages.
- Characteristics, alternatives and history of programming languages for the Web - insight into the context in which each language is used.
- This paper by Marat Boshernitsan includes an historical overview of some of the pioneering efforts in the field.
- An encyclopedia description of PL/I history with many links to programming terms.
- The history and use of comments in programming languages, from the beginning of programming to the present day.
- A short history of early Java from 1991 to 1995.
- Contains a large number of links to historical documents and notes about early Ada.
- A UNIX history page with many links to UNIX people and links to papers about early UNIX.
- A researched article about the history of the C++ programming language, including information provided by Bjarne Stroustrup. Bibiliography and related links.
- Two diagrams showing how many languages are related to each other.
- The history and use of parentheses in programming languages, from the beginning of programming to the present day.
- The files at this site compare programming language statements in several different languages tracing the statement from early languages to present languages.
- History and use of labels in programming languages, from the beginning of programming to the present day.
- Brian Youman's paper on Java including some historical notes: "Java: Cornerstone of the Global Network Enterprise?"
- Original, historic first documents for many early programming languages, like language manualsa, scanned and converted to PDF form.
- Short concise article on programming language history with some links.
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