History

Media publications

• The Semicolon Wars - History and critique of disagreements over language design details, citing some specific traits; by Brian Hayes. American Scientist. (Published 2006.07.00)

	History and Comparison of Programming Languages URL: http://www.gavilan.edu/csis/languages/history.html ODP description: Files compare statements in several different languages, tracing from early to present languages. Page title: History and comparison of programming languages
	O'Reilly: The History of Programming Languages URL: http://oreilly.com/news/languageposter_0504.html ODP description: A poster plots over 50 programming languages on a multi-layered, color-coded timeline. Page title: O'Reilly -- The History of Programming Languages Page description: O'Reilly has produced a poster called History of Programming Languages, which plots over 50 programming languages on a multi-layered, color-coded timeline.
	Wikipedia: PL/I URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL/I_programming_language ODP description: An encyclopedia description of PL/I history with many links to programming terms. Page title: PL/I - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
	Computer Languages History URL: http://www.levenez.com/lang/ ODP description: Timeline chart, 1954 to today, printable; links to homes of many languages. Page description: A Computer Languages History (diagram)
	History and Evolution URL: http://www.scriptol.org/history.php ODP description: A list of computer languages and some links to compilers for these languages. Page title: History and Evolution of programming languages Page description: History or programming languages. For each langage, a link to a free compiler.
	Diagram of Languages URL: http://merd.sourceforge.net/pixel/language-study/diagram.html ODP description: Two diagrams showing how many languages are related to each other. Page title: diagram & history of programming languages
	Historic Documents in Computer Science URL: http://www.fh-jena.de/~kleine/history/ ODP description: Original, historic first documents for many early programming languages, like language manualsa, scanned and converted to PDF form. Page title: historic documents in computer science and engineering
	A Brief History of Programming Languages URL: http://www.byte.com/art/9509/sec7/art19.htm ODP description: A special Byte Magazine article published for Byte's 20th anniversary special report Page title: BYTE.com
	Visual Programming Languages: A Survey URL: http://nitsan.org/~maratb/cs263/ ODP description: Paper by Marat Boshernitsan with historical overview of some pioneering efforts in the field. Page title: CS263: Design of Programming Languages