| A Brief History of Pascal: Article describes basic developments of Algol, Pascal, Modula-2, Simula, Smalltalk, Cedar, Oberon, Component Pascal, BlackBox Component Builder. By Oberon Microsystems, Inc. |
| A Brief History of Programming Languages: A special Byte Magazine article published for Byte's 20th anniversary special report |
| C++ History: A researched article about the history of the C++ programming language, including information provided by Bjarne Stroustrup. Bibiliography and related links. |
| Computer Languages History: Timeline chart, 1954 to today, printable; links to homes of many languages. |
| Diagram of Languages: Two diagrams showing how many languages are related to each other. |
| Historic Documents in Computer Science: Original, historic first documents for many early programming languages, like language manualsa, scanned and converted to PDF form. |
| History and Comparison of Programming Languages: Papers on use history of: comments, labels, literals, parentheses. |
| History and Evolution: A list of computer languages and some links to compilers for these languages. |
| History of Ada: Contains a large number of links to historical documents and notes about early Ada. |
| Java History: Treats early origins, from 1991 to 1995. |
| Java: Cornerstone of the Global Network Enterprise?: Brian Youman's paper on Java including some historical notes: "Java: Cornerstone of the Global Network Enterprise?" |
| O'Reilly: The History of Programming Languages: A poster plots over 50 programming languages on a multi-layered, color-coded timeline. |
| Pascal History: Brief account of birth, life, and death of Pascal language. |
| The History of Computer Programming Languages: Short concise article on programming language history with some links. |
| The Semicolon Wars: History and critique of disagreements over language design details, citing some specific traits; by Brian Hayes. American Scientist. |
| 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. |
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