[SCC_Active_Members] pgm langs for 1973

[Van Snyder]

Jeanne Martin <Jeanne-Martin at comcast.net> has a substantial collection
of papers from the ANSI and ISO Fortran committees.

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On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 15:34 -0800, Gordon Bell wrote:
> Jean’s collection of manuals, most likely to be coveted, was given to
> the Charles Babbage Institute where they are undoubtedly being
> maintained in a well preserved state.
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> 
> Dag has certainly prompted the question: What is the collection
> policies for preserving the languages?
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> 
> It would be great to see a timeline of all these, with their variants
> and how they have come into existence, influenced others, and died.
> Levenex has this great plot
> http://www.levenez.com/lang/history.html#07 that I love.
> 
> See attached plot.
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> 
> Regard,
> 
> g
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> From:scc_active-bounces at computerhistory.org [mailto:scc_active-
> bounces at computerhistory.org] On Behalf Of John R. Mashey
> Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 1:37 PM
> To: GHendrie at aol.com; aek at bitsavers.org; hgladney at pacbell.net
> Cc: SCC_active at computerhistory.org
> Subject: RE: [SCC_Active_Members] pgm langs for 1973
> 
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> Jean's original book was quite useful when I wrote this:
> 
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> http://www.acmqueue.org/modules.php?
> name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=245&page=1
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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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> 
> From:scc_active-bounces at computerhistory.org [mailto:scc_active-
> bounces at computerhistory.org] On Behalf Of GHendrie at aol.com
> Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 9:48 AM
> To: aek at bitsavers.org; hgladney at pacbell.net
> Cc: SCC_active at computerhistory.org
> Subject: Re: [SCC_Active_Members] pgm langs for 1973
> 
>         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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