History Programming

Sites about the history of computer programming and programming languages.

• Top/Computers/Software/Operating Systems/History
• Top/Computers/Programming/Languages/Comparison and Review

• O'Reilly: The History of Programming Languages - A poster plots over 50 programming languages on a multi-layered, color-coded timeline.
  
• History and Comparison of Programming Languages - Papers on use history of: comments, labels, literals, parentheses.
  
• Computer Languages History - Timeline chart, 1954 to today, printable; links to homes of many languages.
  
• The Retrocomputing Museum - Dedicated to programs that induce sensations that hover somewhere between nostalgia and nausea. The freaks, jokes, and fossils of computing history.
  
• Historic Documents in Computer Science - Original, historic first documents for many early programming languages, like language manualsa, scanned and converted to PDF form.
  
• Visual Programming Languages: A Survey - This paper by Marat Boshernitsan includes an historical overview of some of the pioneering efforts in the field.
  
• Wikipedia: PL/I - An encyclopedia description of PL/I history with many links to programming terms.
  
• Diagram of Languages - Two diagrams showing how many languages are related to each other.
  
• History and Evolution - A list of computer languages and some links to compilers for these languages.
  
• A Brief History of Programming Languages - A special Byte Magazine article published for Byte's 20th anniversary special report
  
  

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