Re: PhD or books on history of individual languages

From	"Derek M. Jones" <derek@_NOSPAM_knosof.co.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.compilers
Subject	Re: PhD or books on history of individual languages
Date	2018-12-03 11:12 +0000
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Kaz,

>> Social scientists and English majors are missing out on
>> writing about an unexplored area of knowledge.
>
> Which brings up the point that digging through historic programming
> languages is not really Ph. D. level work in the field of Computer Science.

I'm not suggesting that this topic is appropriate, or not, for any
academic discipline.

Historians of computing are starting to proliferate, but mostly
hardware at the moment:
https://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2018/03/13/historians-of-computing/
[There's plenty of software history in IEEE Annals.  The current issue is about
the history of desktop publishing, 2% about the typesetters and laser printers,
and 98% about the software. -John]

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PhD or books on history of individual languages "Derek M. Jones" <derek@_NOSPAM_knosof.co.uk> - 2018-11-22 14:41 +0000
  Re: PhD or books on history of individual languages Fernando <pronesto@gmail.com> - 2018-11-23 01:12 -0800
    Re: PhD or books on history of individual languages "Derek M. Jones" <derek@_NOSPAM_knosof.co.uk> - 2018-11-23 16:04 +0000
      Re: PhD or books on history of individual languages Louis Krupp <lkrupp@pssw.com> - 2018-11-23 15:17 -0700
        Re: PhD or books on history of individual languages "Derek M. Jones" <derek@_NOSPAM_knosof.co.uk> - 2018-11-24 19:49 +0000
          Re: PhD or books on history of individual languages Kaz Kylheku <157-073-9834@kylheku.com> - 2018-12-02 12:39 -0500
            Re: PhD or books on history of individual languages "Derek M. Jones" <derek@_NOSPAM_knosof.co.uk> - 2018-12-03 11:12 +0000
              Re: PhD or books on history of individual languages "Robin Vowels" <robin51@dodo.com.au> - 2018-12-08 14:31 -0500
  Re: PhD or books on history of individual languages Nick <ibeam2000@gmail.com> - 2018-11-23 21:36 -0800
  Re: PhD or books on history of individual languages steve kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> - 2018-11-24 18:58 +0000
    Re: PhD or books on history of individual languages "Derek M. Jones" <derek@_NOSPAM_knosof.co.uk> - 2018-11-25 00:57 +0000
      Re: PhD or books on history of individual languages Fernando <pronesto@gmail.com> - 2018-12-02 12:39 -0500
  Re: PhD or books on history of individual languages gah4@u.washington.edu - 2020-02-27 18:43 -0800
    Re: PhD or books on history of individual languages "Derek M. Jones" <derek@_NOSPAM_knosof.co.uk> - 2020-02-28 14:28 +0000
  Re: PhD or books on history of individual languages gah4@u.washington.edu - 2020-03-06 12:30 -0800
    Re: PhD or books on history of individual languages "Derek M. Jones" <derek@_NOSPAM_knosof.co.uk> - 2020-03-08 21:36 +0000
      Re: PhD or books on history of individual languages George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2020-03-09 07:33 -0400

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