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• Computers: Programming: Languages: Comparison and Review  (122)
• Computers: Software: Operating Systems: History  (6)

• A Brief History of Programming Languages - A special Byte Magazine article published for Byte's 20th anniversary special report
• Computer Languages History - Timeline chart, 1954 to today, printable; links to homes of many languages.
• Diagram of Languages - Two diagrams showing how many languages are related to each other.
• Historic Documents in Computer Science - Original, historic first documents for many early programming languages, like language manualsa, scanned and converted to PDF form.
• History and Comparison of Programming Languages - Papers on use history of: comments, labels, literals, parentheses.
• History and Evolution - A list of computer languages and some links to compilers for these languages.
• The History of Computer Programming Languages - Short concise article on programming language history with some links.
• O'Reilly: The History of Programming Languages - A poster plots over 50 programming languages on a multi-layered, color-coded timeline.
• Visual Programming Languages: A Survey - This paper by Marat Boshernitsan includes an historical overview of some of the pioneering efforts in the field.
• Wikipedia: PL/I - An encyclopedia description of PL/I history with many links to programming terms.

• The Semicolon Wars - History and critique of disagreements over language design details, citing some specific traits; by Brian Hayes. American Scientist. (July, 2006)

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