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...
This paper outlines the history of the C++ programming language from the early days of its ISO standardization (1991), through the 1998 ISO standard, to the later stages of the C+...
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 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...
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...
AppleScript is a scripting language and environment for the Mac OS. Originally conceived in 1989, AppleScript allows end-users to automate complex tasks and customize Mac OS appli...
Emerald is an object-based programming language and system designed and implemented in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Washington in the early and mid-1980...
Andrew P. Black, Norman C. Hutchinson, Eric Jul, H...