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: Languages from the 1950s Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 19:27:08 +0100 Organization: virginmedia.com Lines: 21 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <20-03-032@comp.compilers> References: <20-03-030@comp.compilers> <20-03-031@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="98100"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@iecc.com" Keywords: history, Lisp, comment Posted-Date: 31 Mar 2020 17:58:57 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: <20-03-031@comp.compilers> Content-Language: en-US Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:2503 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]