This paper describes the history of Haskell, including its genesis and principles, technical contributions, implementations and tools, and applications and impact.
Paul Hudak, John Hughes, Simon L. Peyton Jones, Ph...
We report on the birth and evolution of Lua and discuss how it moved from a simple configuration language to a versatile, widely used language that supports extensible semantics, ...
Roberto Ierusalimschy, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo...
This paper is a highly personal and subjective account of how the language of statecharts came into being. The main novelty of the language is in being a fully executable visual f...
This is an account of the development of the languages Modula-2 and Oberon. Together with their ancestors ALGOL 60 and Pascal they form a family called Algollike languages. Pascal...