Path: csiph.com!4.us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!feeder.usenetexpress.com!feeder-in1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.misty.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED.news.iecc.com!nerds-end From: "Derek M. Jones" Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: PhD or books on history of individual languages Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2018 19:49:54 +0000 Organization: virginmedia.com Lines: 13 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <18-11-015@comp.compilers> References: <18-11-009@comp.compilers> <18-11-010@comp.compilers> <18-11-011@comp.compilers> <18-11-012@comp.compilers> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: gal.iecc.com; posting-host="news.iecc.com:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970"; logging-data="61050"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@iecc.com" Keywords: books, history Posted-Date: 24 Nov 2018 19:42:31 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: <18-11-012@comp.compilers> Content-Language: en-US Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:2127 Louis, > 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. I have enough enthusiasm to read them, not write them. Historians of computing tend to be primarily hardware based https://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2018/03/13/historians-of-computing/ Social scientists and English majors are missing out on writing about an unexplored area of knowledge.