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

>      I don't know if it fits your criteria, but are you aware of HOPL
> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Programming_Languages)? This

Yes, I know about the regular papers.

> or theses.  I don't ever recall seeing a thesis on specific programming
> languages, but you could certainly get a few out of the tangled history
> of Lisp.  -John]

I was surprised to see the thesis on CHILL (I once wrote a
CHILL front end) and thought there might be more.