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: Sun, 8 Mar 2020 21:36:31 +0000 Organization: virginmedia.com Lines: 45 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <20-03-010@comp.compilers> References: <18-11-009@comp.compilers> <20-03-008@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="16851"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@iecc.com" Keywords: books, standards, history, comment Posted-Date: 08 Mar 2020 20:35:38 EDT X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com In-Reply-To: <20-03-008@comp.compilers> Content-Language: en-US Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:2481 gah4, > Another book that you might be interested in is: > > "Programming Language Standardization" ^ s Amazon does not find it with the z spelling [see below -John] There was an update in the September 1994 issue of Computer Standards & Interfaces, devoted to programming language standards. I have a copy, but only because I wrote the C article. > It seems to be usual for a language to be in common use before > anyone gets around to writing a standard. That complicates the > process. I'm not sure that can be said for Modula-2, whose fans thought it was not popular yet because it did not have an ISO standard. > Chapters are written by different people, but in book style, > not journal article style. My copy of "Handbook of Programming languages vol 1, object-oriented programming" has arrived, all 2.5 inches of thickness. It's chapters are really extended marketing pieces by someone involved in the language design. > [It was published by Ellis Harwood in 1980, long out of print, but in a fair > number of academic libraries. -John] Amazon lists a copy for £2.95. It's surprising that nobody has written a PhD on Cobol or Fortran. I'm sure it will happen eventually. -- Derek M. Jones blog:shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com [Amazon US doesn't find it with either spelling, Amazon UK finds three copies including one in the US. US library catalogs finds it spelled with a z. I've asked my library to borrow a copy for me. -John]