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: Nick Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: PhD or books on history of individual languages Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2018 21:36:19 -0800 (PST) Organization: Compilers Central Lines: 14 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <18-11-013@comp.compilers> References: <18-11-009@comp.compilers> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: gal.iecc.com; posting-host="news.iecc.com:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970"; logging-data="99607"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@iecc.com" Keywords: APL, history, comment Posted-Date: 24 Nov 2018 10:38:02 EST X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com In-Reply-To: <18-11-009@comp.compilers> Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:2125 For APL, see http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/ particularly http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/APL.htm This was Ken Iverson's original 1962 book which is rather far from even early APL implementations. [Iverson's book is sort of the opposite of a history. It's about how one might write a language like APL. It is my impression that people were surprised how well it turned into a working language, with excellent multi user performance on late 1960s mainframes. -John]