Re: History and evolution of compilers

Eero Lassila wrote:
>
> On Tue Sep 30, Martin Hellspong <pt93mhe@student.hk-r.se> wrote:
>
> > I am interested in the history and evolution of programming, and
> > especially the history of compilers...
>
> A useful reference might be:
...


and another is at URL




                http://www1.acm.org:81/catalog/proceedings/hopl.html




which is the proceedings of the second History of Programmng Languages
Conference [ HOPL II ] (I believe HOPL I proceedings are out of print).


Also, if you can access the ACM Digital Library, a search on "history"
turns up a lot of items, a fair number of which are relevant.


Finally, CACM interviews Turing Award recipients and publishes the
interviews along with the recipient's Lecture. These interviews tend to
focus on the history associated with the recipients work. A search for
"frenkel" (the interviewer)
and "turing award" will turn up on-line references.


// Mike Kent
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