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A Brief History of Programming Languages  - http://www.byte.com/art/9509/sec7/art19.htm  A special Byte Magazine article published for Byte's 20th anniversary special report  Java: Cornerstone of the Global Network Enterprise?  - http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Youmans.Java.html  Brian Youman's paper on Java including some historical notes: "Java: Cornerstone of the Global Network Enterprise?"  A Computer Languages (diagram)  - http://www.levenez.com/lang/  A Computer languages timeline, 1954 to present, printable chart. Includes links to home page for many languages.  Diagram of Languages  - http://merd.sourceforge.net/pixel/language-study/diagram.html  Two diagrams showing how many languages are related to each other.  Historic Documents in Computer Science  - http://www.fh-jena.de/~kleine/history/  Original, historic first documents for many early programming languages, like language manualsa, scanned and converted to PDF form.  Wikipedia: PL/I  - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL/I_programming_language  An encyclopedia description of PL/I history with many links to programming terms.  C++ History  - http://www.hitmill.com/programming/cpp/cppHistory.asp  A researched article about the history of the C++ programming language, including information provided by Bjarne Stroustrup. Bibiliography and related links.  The History of Computer Programming Languages  - http://www.princeton.edu/~ferguson/adw/programming_languages.shtml  Short concise article on programming language history with some links.  Java, timelines  - http://ils.unc.edu/blaze/java/javahist.html  A short history of early Java from 1991 to 1995.  History of Ada  - http://www.adahome.com/History/  Contains a large number of links to historical documents and notes about early Ada.  Visual Programming Languages: A Survey  - http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~maratb/cs263/  This paper by Marat Boshernitsan includes an historical overview of some of the pioneering efforts in the field.  Timeline of computer history - Software and Languages  - http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/timeline.php?timeline_category=sl  Has many links to important events in programming language history.  Web Programming Languages  - http://www.freelance-help.com/web-programming.php  Characteristics, alternatives and history of programming languages for the Web - insight into the context in which each language is used.  Pascal history  - http://www.taoyue.com/tutorials/pascal/history.html  A brief look at the birth, life, and death of the Pascal programming language.  History and Evolution  - http://www.scriptol.org/history.php  A list of computer languages and some links to compilers for these languages.  History and comparison of programming languages  - http://www.gavilan.edu/csis/languages/history.html  Has papers on history of programming language comments, literals, and labels.  O'Reilly: The History of Programming Languages  - http://oreilly.com/news/languageposter_0504.html  A poster plots over 50 programming languages on a multi-layered, color-coded timeline.