Directory of History Resources

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Sites about the history of computer programming and programming languages.

Subcategories

• Ada
• Fortran
• Java

Resources in This Category

• Computer Languages History

  http://www.levenez.com/lang/
  Timeline chart, 1954 to today, printable; links to homes of many languages.

• Diagram of Languages

  http://rigaux.org/language-study/diagram.html
  Two diagrams showing how many languages are related to each other.

• Historic Documents in Computer Science

  http://www.eah-jena.de/~kleine/history/
  Original, historic first documents for many early programming languages, like language manualsa, scanned and converted to PDF form.

• O'Reilly: The History of Programming Languages

  http://oreilly.com/news/languageposter_0504.html
  A poster plots over 50 programming languages on a multi-layered, color-coded timeline.

• The Retrocomputing Museum

  http://www.catb.org/~esr/retro/
  Dedicated to programs that induce sensations that hover somewhere between nostalgia and nausea. The freaks, jokes, and fossils of computing history.

• Wikipedia: PL/I

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL/I_programming_language
  An encyclopedia description of PL/I history with many links to programming terms.

Related Categories

• Home > Computers > Programming > Languages > Comparison and Review
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