[SCC_Active_Members] pgm langs for 1973

[John R. Mashey]

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> Jean's original book was quite useful when I wrote this:
 
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 "Language wars seem to go on forever. Classic references on early languages
are Jean Sammet's Programming Languages-History and Fundamentals,2 which
discussed approximately 120 important languages as of 1969, and Richard
Wexelblat's History of Progarmming Languages,3 which recorded a conference
that chose 10 important languages created before 1967 and still in use in
1977. Of the 10, substantial new code is still written by many people in
Basic, Cobol, and Fortran. Others remain popular in their specific domains
(Lisp, APT, and occasionally Snobol), and some long-established IBM
languages (PL/I, GPSS) remain. Most of the 120 are gone."
 
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In a message dated 2/9/2007 5:12:52 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
aek at bitsavers.org writes:

H.M. Gladney wrote:
> Jean Sammett seems to have made a hobby of the history of programming 
> languages

She wrote one of the first books on the history of programming languages

"Programming Languages: History and Fundamentals", 1969

The front piece is the classic "tower of babel" language drawing.

She was also one of the main drivers behind the first HOPL


She was also on the Board of Trustees of the Computer Museum in Boston (our
antecedent) for many years and curated an exhibit on the History of
Programming Languages at the Museum in the mid '80's.
 
gardner

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