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Subject: Dead Media Working Note 00.9

Dead medium: dead computer languages

From: wex_AT_media.mit.edu (Alan Wexelblat)

Source: Wexelblat, Richard (ed.) "History Of Programming Languages"
Academic Press (HBJ), ISBN 0-12-745040-8

Dead computer languages covered in "History of Programming Languages"

        Fortran I, II and III
        ALGOL 58 and 60
        Lisp 1 and 1.5
        COBOL (the dead-ness of this language may be debatable)
        APT
        JOVIAL
        SIMULA I and 67
        JOSS
        PL/1
        SNOBOL
        APL (ditto)

Also: check out http://www.indiana.edu/~sharp

It's nominally the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (ie books), but also has links to some older (dead) book-related tech, including papyrus, illuminated manuscripts, and medieval blockbooks.

Alan

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