- A Brief History of Programming Languages - A special Byte Magazine article published for Byte's 20th anniversary special report
- Java: Cornerstone of the Global Network Enterprise? - Brian Youman's paper on Java including some historical notes: "Java: Cornerstone of the Global Network Enterprise?"
- A Computer Languages (diagram) - A Computer languages timeline, 1954 to present, printable chart. Includes links to home page for many languages.
- Diagram of Languages - Two diagrams showing how many languages are related to each other.
- Historic Documents in Computer Science - Original, historic first documents for many early programming languages, like language manualsa, scanned and converted to PDF form.
- Wikipedia: PL/I - An encyclopedia description of PL/I history with many links to programming terms.
- C++ History - A researched article about the history of the C++ programming language, including information provided by Bjarne Stroustrup. Bibiliography and related links.
- The History of Computer Programming Languages - Short concise article on programming language history with some links.
- Java, timelines - A short history of early Java from 1991 to 1995.
- History of Ada - Contains a large number of links to historical documents and notes about early Ada.
- Visual Programming Languages: A Survey - This paper by Marat Boshernitsan includes an historical overview of some of the pioneering efforts in the field.
- Timeline of computer history - Software and Languages - Has many links to important events in programming language history.
- Web Programming Languages - Characteristics, alternatives and history of programming languages for the Web - insight into the context in which each language is used.
- Pascal history - A brief look at the birth, life, and death of the Pascal programming language.
- History and Evolution - A list of computer languages and some links to compilers for these languages.
- History and comparison of programming languages - Has papers on history of programming language comments, literals, and labels.
- O'Reilly: The History of Programming Languages - A poster plots over 50 programming languages on a multi-layered, color-coded timeline.
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