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HOPL
1993
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A History of C++: 1979-1991
This paper outlines the history of the C++ programming language. The emphasis is on the ideas, constraints, and people that shaped the language, rather than the minutiae of langua...
Bjarne Stroustrup
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HOPL
1993
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The Evolution of Lisp
Lisp is the world’s greatest programming language—or so its proponents think. The structure of Lisp makes it easy to extend the language or even to implement entirely new dial...
Guy L. Steele Jr., Richard P. Gabriel
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HOPL
1993
15 years 28 days ago
The Development of the C Language
The C programming language was devised in the early 1970s as a system implementation language for the nascent Unix operating system. Derived from the typeless language BCPL, it ev...
Dennis Ritchie
HOPL
1993
15 years 28 days ago
The Birth of Prolog
The programming language, Prolog, was born of a project aimed not at producing a programming language but at processing natural languages; in this case, French. The project gave r...
Alain Colmerauer, Philippe Roussel