I highly recommend "Go To" by Steve Lohr [1]. The book follows a chronological path from the pre-Hopper/Turing era through Apache and the early open source move

I highly recommend "Go To" by Steve Lohr [1]. The book follows a chronological path from the pre-Hopper/Turing era through Apache and the early open source movement. We learn history of the following languages: FORTRAN, COBAL, Unix, C, BASIC, Visual Basic, Algol, Pascal, C++. Also covered are the founding stories of IBM, Microsoft and Macintosh and their "business" practices. [1] http://www.amazon.com/Engineers-Scientists-Iconoclasts---Programmers-Revolution/dp/0465042260/ref=sr_1_1_bnp_1_pap?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1388345912&sr=1-1&keywords=go+to%3A+the+story+of+math+majors http://www.amazon.com/Engineers-Scientists-Iconoclasts---Pro...