History of Programming Languages
Now this going to be a cool conference: 3rd ACM SIGPLAN conference on History of Programming Languages, 2007, San Diego, California, June 09 - 10, 2007.
Some highlights from the 12 papers that are going to be presented and that are already in the ACM DL:
- Evolving a language in and for the real world: C++ 1991-2006 by Bjarne Stroustrup (self-archived draft)
- The rise and fall of High Performance Fortran: an historical object lesson by Ken Kennedy, Charles Koelbel, Hans Zima
- A history of Haskell: being lazy with class by Paul Hudak, John Hughes, Simon Peyton Jones, Philip Wadler (self-archived)
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So, three HOPL conference, and Lisp's been represented at all three (even if it's "just" the opening keynote this time).
And I have been told that certain members of Bell Labs consider a certain language sequel inventor to be pretty much a 'one trick pony'.
Well, I have to admit Lisp's one language I never learned but I guess I do appreciate it's importance to the history of such things and I think it's becomming more apparent in a lot of the new languages.
As for some++ languages, well let's just say they had their time in the sun (not Sun, of jcourse) and we should all just weed the books out of our collections...
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