Re: PhD or books on history of individual languages

gah4,


> Another book that you might be interested in is:
>
> "Programming Language Standardization"
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Amazon does not find it with the z spelling [see below -John]


There was an update in the September 1994 issue of
Computer Standards & Interfaces, devoted to programming
language standards.
I have a copy, but only because I wrote the C article.


> It seems to be usual for a language to be in common use before
> anyone gets around to writing a standard. That complicates the
> process.


I'm not sure that can be said for Modula-2, whose fans thought it
was not popular yet because it did not have an ISO standard.


> Chapters are written by different people, but in book style,
> not journal article style.


My copy of "Handbook of Programming languages vol 1, object-oriented
programming" has arrived, all 2.5 inches of thickness.


It's chapters are really extended marketing pieces by someone
involved in the language design.


> [It was published by Ellis Harwood in 1980, long out of print, but in a fair
> number of academic libraries. -John]


Amazon lists a copy for £2.95.


It's surprising that nobody has written a PhD on Cobol or Fortran.
I'm sure it will happen eventually.


--
Derek M. Jones
blog:shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com
[Amazon US doesn't find it with either spelling, Amazon UK finds three
copies including one in the US. US library catalogs finds it spelled
with a z. I've asked my library to borrow a copy for me. -John]

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