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HOPL
Online Historical Encyclopaedia of Programming Languages
An online roster and genealogy of 8945 programming languages from the 18th century to the present, featuring 7,800 influence links and over 11,...
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The Encyclopedia of Computer Languages
van Oortmerssen (Wouter van Oortmerssen)
van Rossum (Guido van Rossum)
Vaucher (Jean Vaucher)
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HOPL Navigation
Searching and navigating
The site is in the form of a Gernsback machine, a hypernavigable multidimensional facet tree for which the languages, systems, organisations and people are instantiations, and...
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The Encyclopedia of Computer Languages
What is a computer language?
There are no agreed definitions, even amongst the standards bodies as exactly what a programming language is: like the wise man who knew all about time until asked to defi...
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The Encyclopedia of Computer Languages
Why it is important to know about the history of programming languages
This site is concerned with the idea-historical treatment of the development of programming languages as a means of human express...
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The Languages Roster
HOPL Links
Trees
Family trees are funny things for anything within the history of ideas. The semantic space they map has always got an approximate time-linearity on one axis, but the other axis remain...