This paper by Marat Boshernitsan includes an historical overview of some of the pioneering efforts in the field.
Many links to important events in programming language history; text, photos, sorted by year.
Characteristics, alternatives and history of programming languages for the Web - insight into the context in which each language is used.
Brief account of birth, life, and death of Pascal language.
A list of computer languages and some links to compilers for these languages.
Papers on use history of: comments, labels, literals, parentheses.
A poster plots over 50 programming languages on a multi-layered, color-coded timeline.
Article describes basic developments of Algol, Pascal, Modula-2, Simula, Smalltalk, Cedar, Oberon, Component Pascal, BlackBox Component Builder. By Oberon Microsystems, Inc.
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