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: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: Languages from the 1950s Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 17:08:30 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien Lines: 20 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <20-03-031@comp.compilers> References: <20-03-030@comp.compilers> Injection-Info: gal.iecc.com; posting-host="news.iecc.com:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970"; logging-data="35806"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@iecc.com" Keywords: history, comment Posted-Date: 31 Mar 2020 13:38:26 EDT 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:2502 "Derek M. Jones" writes: >All, > >I looking for manuals for languages from the 1950s, >the earlier the better. Not a manual, but "The Early Development of Programming Languages" by Donald Knuth and Luis Trabb Pardo is a longish paper that provides a nice overview, as well as lots of literature references. It is reprinted in Knuth's "Selected Papers on Computer Languages". - anton -- M. Anton Ertl anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/ [Good thought -- it's 90 pages of Knuthy goodness. You can find a scan of a version released as a Stanford tech report at https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA032123 -John]