Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.snarked.org!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.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: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 14:28:29 +0000 Organization: virginmedia.com Lines: 17 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <20-02-031@comp.compilers> References: <18-11-009@comp.compilers> <20-02-027@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="5198"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@iecc.com" Keywords: books, comment Posted-Date: 28 Feb 2020 12:53:10 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: <20-02-027@comp.compilers> Content-Language: en-US Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:2468 gah, > There is the "Handbook of Programming Languages", which is a four > volume set edited by Peter Salus. Thanks. Lots of second hand copies of volume II, Imperative languages. There are the HOPL conference talks, of which the evolution of Lisp paper is by far the best: www.dreamsongs.com/Files/HOPL2-Uncut.pdf -- Derek M. Jones blog:shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com [At archive.org there are semi-legal scans of all four volumes you can check out and read. -John]