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From: "Derek M. Jones" <derek@_NOSPAM_knosof.co.uk>
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Subject: PhD or books on history of individual languages
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All,

I'm looking for PhD thesis or books covering the history of
popular, or once popular languages (not edited
collections of papers on different languages).

I know of one such, for CHILL:
https://brage.bibsys.no/xmlui/handle/11250/94362

I have done the obvious searches on Fortran, Cobol
and APL.  There are plenty of papers, but no thesis
or books.

There is also Mark Priestly's Phd:
"LOGIC AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES, 1930–1975"
markpriestley.net/pdfs/phd.pdf

Pointers welcome.