Comment on Ask HN: What are some good resources on the history of programming languages?Comments−EdwardCoffin11yThere's The Evolution of Lisp [1], which talks about the entwined relationship of many of the different dialects of lisp.A History of Haskell [2]The Early History of Smalltalk [3][1] http://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/HOPL2-Uncut.pdf[2] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers...[3] http://gagne.homedns.org/~tgagne/contrib/EarlyHistoryST.html−jsnell11yEverything from HOPL II is great. I don't know whether all of it ever got published online, but the book version is totally worth it.−jcurbo11yIt looks like you have to be an ACM member to access these, but all the papers are online for HOPL II: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=234286HOPL III is here: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1238844&coll=DL&dl=GUIDE&C...HOPL I is here: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=800025&coll=DL&dl=GUIDE&CF...I have the hardcopy versions of I and II that I bought used from Amazon and they're great.
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There's The Evolution of Lisp [1], which talks about the entwined relationship of many of the different dialects of lisp.
A History of Haskell [2]
The Early History of Smalltalk [3]
[1] http://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/HOPL2-Uncut.pdf
[2] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers...
[3] http://gagne.homedns.org/~tgagne/contrib/EarlyHistoryST.html
Everything from HOPL II is great. I don't know whether all of it ever got published online, but the book version is totally worth it.
It looks like you have to be an ACM member to access these, but all the papers are online for HOPL II: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=234286
HOPL III is here: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1238844&coll=DL&dl=GUIDE&C...
HOPL I is here: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=800025&coll=DL&dl=GUIDE&CF...
I have the hardcopy versions of I and II that I bought used from Amazon and they're great.