On: Ask HN: What are some good resources on the history of programming languages?

[EdwardCoffin]

There's The Evolution of Lisp [1], which talks about the entwined relationship of many of the different dialects of lisp.

A History of Haskell [2]

The Early History of Smalltalk [3]

[1] http://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/HOPL2-Uncut.pdf

[2] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers...

[3] http://gagne.homedns.org/~tgagne/contrib/EarlyHistoryST.html

[jsnell → EdwardCoffin]

Everything from HOPL II is great. I don't know whether all of it ever got published online, but the book version is totally worth it.

[jcurbo → jsnell]

It looks like you have to be an ACM member to access these, but all the papers are online for HOPL II: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=234286

HOPL III is here: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1238844&coll=DL&dl=GUIDE&C...

HOPL I is here: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=800025&coll=DL&dl=GUIDE&CF...

I have the hardcopy versions of I and II that I bought used from Amazon and they're great.