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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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