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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 50 , Issue 5 (May 2007) table of contents
ACM at sixty: a look back in time

SPECIAL ISSUE: ACM at 60: a look back in time table of contents

Pages: 69 - 74

Year of Publication: 2007

ISSN:0001-0782

Author

Thomas J. (Tim) Bergin

American University, Washington, DC

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."---Isaac Newton, in a letter to Robert Hooke, Feb. 15, 1676

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	1	Jean E. Sammet, The beginning and development of FORMAC: FORmula MAnipulation Compiler, History of programming languages---II, ACM, New York, NY, 1996 [doi>10.1145/234286.1057824]
	2	Jean E. Sammet, Roster of programming languages for 1976-77, ACM SIGPLAN Notices, v.13 n.11, p.56-85, November 1978 [doi>10.1145/953777.953783]
	3	Jean E. Sammet, Programming Languages: History and Fundamentals, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1969
	4	Rosen Saul, Programming Systems and Languages., McGraw Hill Text, 1967
	5	[fr5] Oral history of Jean E. Sammet by Thomas J. Bergin (Spring 2006).
	6	[fr6] See Richard L. Wexelblat's History of Programming Languages, Academic Press, New York, 1981.
	7	[fr7] "Conference Organization: General Questions Asked of All Authors." The entire set of questions is in Appendix B.
	8	[fr8] Annals of the History of Computing, (July 1979), contains two reviews of the HOPL Conference by Nancy Stern and James J. Horning, 68-71; the Brooks quotation is on p. 69. The creation of Annals was announced at the end of the HOPL conference.
	9	[fr9] Richard L. Wexelblat, Ed., "Pre-Prints--History of Programming Languages Conference." ACM SIGPLAN Notices, (Aug. 1978); doi.acm.org/10.1145/ 960118.808394.
	10	[fr10] See "Anecdotes," Annals of the History of Computing (July 1981), 283-286 (Note: Galler also served as the first editor-in-chief of the Annals).
	11	[fr11] See www.princeton.edu/~mike/articles/miscellany/whatmakeshist.pdf.
	12	[fr12] Preprints were issued as the March 1993 issue of ACM SIGPLAN Notices.
	13	[fr13] See portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=234286.1057808.
	14	Thomas J. Bergin, Jr. , Richard G. Gibson, Jr., History of programming languages---II, ACM, New York, NY, 1996
	15	[fr15] Thomas J. Bergin and Richard J. Gibson. Supplemental Material from HOPL II: Conference Banquet. SIGPLAN Notices (Nov. 1996), 9-20; doi.acm.org/10.1145/ 240964.1198155.
	16	Tim Bergin , Michael S. Mahoney, HOPL II—closing panel: The history of programming (panel): does our present past have a future?, ACM SIGPLAN Notices, v.32 n.9, p.15-37, Sept. 1997 [doi>10.1145/270507.270509]
	17	[fr17] Diarmuid Pigott has created "HOPL: an interactive Roster of Programming Languages" at hopl.murdoch.edu.au/home.prx. This site contains information on 8,512 languages and 17,837 bibliographic records.