[SCC_Active_Members] pgm langs for 1973

[Al Kossow]

Gordon Bell wrote:

> Dag has certainly prompted the question: What is the collection policies 
> for preserving the languages?

"the languages" meaning ALL programming languages?

The overall policy that I have been following as curator of the software
collection is a combination of proactive and reactive collecting. For the
software itself, acquire examples of significant contemporary (ie. easier
to find) software systems, including development systems (languages and other
tools, SDKs, etc.) and, as they can be found, software from the not so recent
past (which is MUCH more difficult). Significant examples recently of "reactive"
collecting is the software side of the "SAP" collection from Dortmund, and the
SDS 9xx program library from Missouri.

In addition, Paul McJones has been working on significant 'vertical' programming
language history research on individual languages (FORTRAN, and LISP) which will
be archived at CHM.

There are currently no large-scale 'horizontal' research initiatives at CHM, though
it seems there is no shortage of such work on the Web.