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Seems like most of the interesting history is missing, perhaps because it happened before the author was born.

I bought this from Amazon UK like 22 years ago. (Should have bought Amazon stock instead ..)

https://www.amazon.com/History-Programming-Languages-Thomas-...

It's one those books I return to, every few years. Recommended. Maybe the papers are available online somewhere by now?

The author seems to have restricted the entries to languages still taught and used, but missed COBOL and maybe C#. I can't really blame him, in either case.

He also missed PHP...

Visual Basic, Swift, and even Scratch also rank higher on usage lists than some of those that are on the chart. Chapel is likely to be more influential. The "limited to languages being taught or used" excuse is super thin.

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