Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder.usenetexpress.com!feeder-in1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED.news.iecc.com!nerds-end From: Louis Krupp Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: PhD or books on history of individual languages Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2018 15:17:16 -0700 Organization: Newshosting.com - Highest quality at a great price! www.newshosting.com Lines: 22 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <18-11-012@comp.compilers> References: <18-11-009@comp.compilers> <18-11-010@comp.compilers> <18-11-011@comp.compilers> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: gal.iecc.com; posting-host="news.iecc.com:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970"; logging-data="98944"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@iecc.com" Keywords: history Posted-Date: 24 Nov 2018 10:36:32 EST X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:2124 On Fri, 23 Nov 2018 16:04:49 +0000, "Derek M. Jones" wrote: >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. You might be the person to read some of those papers and write one of those books. You'll have a perspective that the language designers themselves might not have had. Louis