| A Brief History of Programming Languages - A special Byte Magazine article published for Byte's 20th anniversary special report
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| Java: Cornerstone of the Global Network Enterprise? - Brian Youman's paper on Java including some historical notes: "Java: Cornerstone of the Global Network Enterprise?"
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| A Computer Languages (diagram) - A Computer languages timeline, 1954 to present, printable chart. Includes links to home page for many languages.
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| Diagram of Languages - Two diagrams showing how many languages are related to each other.
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| Historic Documents in Computer Science - Original, historic first documents for many early programming languages, like language manualsa, scanned and converted to PDF form.
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| Comment Statements - The history and use of comments in programming languages, from the beginning of programming to the present day.
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| Literals - The history and use of literals (or constants) in programming languages, from the beginning of programming to the present day.
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| Wikipedia: PL/I - An encyclopedia description of PL/I history with many links to programming terms.
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| C++ History - A researched article about the history of the C++ programming language, including information provided by Bjarne Stroustrup. Bibiliography and related links.
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| The History of Computer Programming Languages - Short concise article on programming language history with some links.
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| Java, timelines - A short history of early Java from 1991 to 1995.
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| History of Ada - Contains a large number of links to historical documents and notes about early Ada.
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| Visual Programming Languages: A Survey - By Marat Boshernitsan.
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| Timeline of computer history - Software and Languages - Has many links to important events in programming language history.
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| History and Comparing Programming Languages - The files at this site compare programming language statements in several different languages tracing the statement from early languages to present languages.
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| Web Programming Languages - Characteristics, alternatives and history of programming languages for the Web - insight into the context in which each language is used.
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| Pascal history - A brief look at the birth, life, and death of the Pascal programming language.
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| Parentheses - The history and use of parentheses in programming languages, from the beginning of programming to the present day.
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| Labels - History and use of labels in programming languages, from the beginning of programming to the present day.
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| Unix History - A detailed family tree.
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