HOPL IV: History of Programming Languages

Richard P. Gabriel, Guy L. Steele Jr.

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The History of Programming Languages conference series produces accurate historical records and descriptions of programming language design, development, and philosophy. It is infrequently held: the first three were in 1978, 1993, and 2007. It’s now time for HOPL IV.

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A History of Clojure
Rich Hickey
A History of MATLAB
Jack Little, Cleve Moler
A history of the Groovy programming language
Paul King
A history of the Oz multiparadigm language
Peter Van Roy, Gert Smolka, Christian Schulte, Seif Haridi
APL Since 1978
Roger K.W. Hui, Morten J. Kromberg
Evolution of Emacs Lisp
Stefan Monnier, Michael Sperber
History of Coarrays and SPMD Parallelism in Fortran
John Reid, Bill Long, Jon Steidel
History of Logo
Cynthia Solomon, Brian Harvey, Ken Kahn, Henry Lieberman, Mark L. Miller, Margaret Minsky, Artemis Papert, Brian Silverman
Hygienic Macro Technology
William Clinger, Mitchell Wand
JavaScript: The First 20 Years
Allen Wirfs-Brock, Brendan Eich
LabVIEW
Jeffrey Kodosky
Myths and Mythconceptions: What does it mean to be a programming language, anyhow?
Mary Shaw
Origins of the D Programming Language
Andrei Alexandrescu, Walter Bright, Michael Parker
programmingLanguage as Language;
James Noble, Robert Biddle
S, R and Data Science.
John Chambers
The Early History of F#
Don Syme
The Evolution of Smalltalk from Smalltalk-72 through Squeak
Daniel Ingalls
The History of Standard ML
John Reppy, David MacQueen, Robert Harper
The Origins of Objective-C at PPI/Stepstone and its Evolution at NeXT
Hansen Hsu
Thriving in a crowded and changing world: C++ 2006-2020
Bjarne Stroustrup
Verilog HDL and its ancestors and descendants
Peter Flake, Phil Moorby, Steve Golson, Arturo Salz, Simon Davidmann
Welcome to HOPL IV Conference
Guy Steele Jr.

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