Re: Languages from the 1950s

From	"Derek M. Jones" <derek@_NOSPAM_knosof.co.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.compilers
Subject	Re: Languages from the 1950s
Date	2020-03-31 19:27 +0100
Organization	virginmedia.com
Message-ID	<20-03-032@comp.compilers> (permalink)
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Anton,

> 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

I am after details.

The paper: "Early LISP History (1956 - 1959)"
is fully of interesting material.

There are Fortran manuals from 1957 and onwards.

As an aside: the ACM has made its papers freely available for three months:
dl.acm.org/

--
Derek M. Jones
blog:shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com
[The Knuth paper has a lot of details.  Well worth the download.  That
Lisp paper is here https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/800055.802047 -John]

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Languages from the 1950s "Derek M. Jones" <derek@_NOSPAM_knosof.co.uk> - 2020-03-30 15:16 +0100
  Re: Languages from the 1950s anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2020-03-31 17:08 +0000
    Re: Languages from the 1950s "Derek M. Jones" <derek@_NOSPAM_knosof.co.uk> - 2020-03-31 19:27 +0100
  Re: Languages from the 1950s gah4@u.washington.edu - 2020-03-31 16:09 -0700
    Re: Languages from the 1950s "Robin Vowels" <robin51@dodo.com.au> - 2020-04-02 13:05 +1100
  Re: Languages from the 1950s "Robin Vowels" <robin51@dodo.com.au> - 2020-04-01 21:31 +1100
    Re: Languages from the 1950s "Derek M. Jones" <derek@_NOSPAM_knosof.co.uk> - 2020-04-01 17:35 +0100
  Re: Languages from the 1950s Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> - 2020-04-01 17:49 +0200
  Re: Languages from the 1950s rst@panix.com (Robert Thau) - 2020-05-10 00:46 +0000
    Re: Languages from the 1950s Martin Ward <martin@gkc.org.uk> - 2020-05-13 10:51 +0100
  Re: Languages from the 1950s "Robin Vowels" <robin51@dodo.com.au> - 2020-09-03 21:02 +1000

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