And note the one language that was there for both conferences - Lisp. Still
vibrant enough after all those years to have enough new surprises to be
included a second time (though Fortran with the F9x standard should have
been there, too). Perhaps Smalltalk will be around for the third
conference, as well. I don't have much hope for C++, though - the lemmings
are all jumping ship for Java-land (or COOL, when it comes out)...
faa
David N. Smith wrote in message <············@news.btv.ibm.com>...
>In article <··········@bmdhh222.europe.nortel.com>, ·······@bnr.co.uk
>(Steven Perryman) wrote:
>
>>>I haven't read this whole thread, so someone may have mentioned this
before.
>>>For information on the history of many programming languages, see:
>>>
>>> History of Programming Languages
>>> Bergin and Gibson, Eds.
>>> Addison-Wesley and ACM Press, 1966, 860++ pages
>>> ISBN 0-201-89502-1
>>>
>>>It covers Algol 68, Pascal, Concurrent Pascal, Ada, Lisp, Prolog, FORMAC,
>>>CLU, Smalltalk, Icon, Forth, C, C++, and 2-3 more.
>>
>>>IMHO, it is a book that should be on the shelf of any fan of programming
>>>languages.
>>
>> Wouldn't be on my shelf if Simula ain't in there.
>
>The book convers the second such conference. The first conference covered
>Algol, APT, BASIC, COBOL, FORTRAN, GPSS, JOSS, JOVIAL, LISP, PL/I, Simula,
>and SNOBOL. I don't there was a book but just proceedings.
>
>Dave
>
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