Xref: utzoo comp.arch:20834 alt.folklore.computers:9564 Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!hacgate!ashtate!dbase!tomr From: tomr@dbase.A-T.COM (Tom Rombouts) Newsgroups: comp.arch,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Jovial (was Re: Info on GE-635) Message-ID: <1991Feb12.172236.213@dbase.A-T.COM> Date: 12 Feb 91 17:22:36 GMT References: <193900.598@timbuk.cray.com> <1991Feb7.203948.1861@cs.umn.edu> Reply-To: tomr@dbase.UUCP (Tom Rombouts) Organization: Ashton-Tate Lines: 25 In article <1991Feb7.203948.1861@cs.umn.edu> lsmith@cs.umn.edu (Lance "Billy Fish" Smith) writes: > >For more concrete information try the either Jean Sammet's or Richard Wexelblat >(ed) history of programming languages. You might also try The System Builders >by Claude Baum. Or maybe the ACM's upcoming History of Programming Languages >Conference will deal with it... The above mentioned Wexelblat book is a polished version of the 1978 ACM History of Programming Languages Conference, held in Los Angeles. The proceedings can still be ordered from the ACM ($17 members, c. $24 for non-members.) order department. This is perhaps the most entertaining collection of language histories ever put together. For the record, the following languages are covered with about 10 or 15 pages each: ALGOL, APL, APT, BASIC, COBOL, FORTRAN, GPSS, JOSS, JOVIAL, LISP, PL/I, SIMULA and SNOBOL. Jean Sammet, also mentioned above, was the chariperson of the committee that put on this conference. Also, I have heard that audio tapes of these lectures are also available from the ACM, but have no ordering info. P.S. - Watch for "The Language List" - coming to this news group real soon now! Tom Rombouts Torrance 'Tater tomr@ashtate.A-T.com V:(213)538-7108