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: Philipp Klaus Krause Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: Languages from the 1950s Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2020 17:49:23 +0200 Organization: solani.org Lines: 24 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <20-04-003@comp.compilers> References: <20-03-030@comp.compilers> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: gal.iecc.com; posting-host="news.iecc.com:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970"; logging-data="1581"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@iecc.com" Keywords: history, comment Posted-Date: 01 Apr 2020 12:00:53 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: <20-03-030@comp.compilers> Content-Language: en-US Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:2506 Am 30.03.20 um 16:16 schrieb Derek M. Jones: > All, > > I looking for manuals for languages from the 1950s, > the earlier the better. > > There were lots of languages around (we just don't know much > about them today): > http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2017/05/21/evidence-for-28-possible-compilers-in-1957/ Slightly outside your time range: Plankalkül, a high-level language developed 1942-1946, first implemented in 1975. However, Konrad Zuse, "Über den Allgemeinen Plankalkül als Mittel zur Formulierung schematisch-kombinativer Aufgaben", Archiv der Mathematik volume 1, pages 441-449 (1948) is not in ACM, and Springer didn't make their stuff freely available yet, but there is Sci-Hub, and there is later documentation also. Philipp [The Knuth paper has 7 pages on Plankalkül, including a sample program. Here's a cleaner copy at bitsavers: http://bitsavers.org/pdf/stanford/cs_techReports/STAN-CS-76-562_EarlyDevelPgmgLang_Aug76.pdf -John]