A Brief History of Programming Languages Save
A special Byte Magazine article published for Byte's 20th anniversary special report
http://www.byte.com/art/9509/sec7/art...   

Computer Languages History Save
Timeline chart, 1954 to today, printable; links to homes of many languages.
http://www.levenez.com/lang/   

Diagram of Languages Save
Two diagrams showing how many languages are related to each other.
http://merd.sourceforge.net/pixel/lan...   

Historic Documents in Computer Science Save
Original, historic first documents for many early programming languages, like language manualsa, scanned and converted to PDF form.
http://www.fh-jena.de/~kleine/history/   

History and Comparison of Programming Languages Save
Papers on use history of: comments, labels, literals, parentheses.
http://www.gavilan.edu/csis/languages...   

History and Evolution Save
A list of computer languages and some links to compilers for these languages.
http://www.scriptol.org/history.php   

O'Reilly: The History of Programming Languages Save
A poster plots over 50 programming languages on a multi-layered, color-coded timeline.
http://oreilly.com/news/languageposte...   

The History of Computer Programming Languages Save
Short concise article on programming language history with some links.
http://www.princeton.edu/~ferguson/ad...   

The Semicolon Wars Save
History and critique of disagreements over language design details, citing some specific traits; by Brian Hayes. American Scientist.
http://www.americanscientist.org/temp...   

Visual Programming Languages: A Survey Save
This paper by Marat Boshernitsan includes an historical overview of some of the pioneering efforts in the field.
http://nitsan.org/~maratb/cs263/   

Wikipedia: PL/I Save
An encyclopedia description of PL/I history with many links to programming terms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL/I_pro...   

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