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The Next 700 Programming Languages (1965) [pdf]
- silentbicycle 15y agoThe HOPL books & papers are great, too. Most (if not all) should be available on citeseer / google scholar. I have the HOPL II book and trivially found all the papers from HOPL III online. I particularly like the history papers for Lisp, Lua, Erlang, and Forth, but, personal biases. Another good one: Sammet's _Programming Languages: History and Fundamentals_. (The superior design of Lisp and APL gets asymptotically more embarrassing in retrospect.)
- jvoorhis 15y agoI get the impression Peter Landin was ahead of his time. I love this paper. It's worth a read by anyone interested in compilers or functional programming.