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The Role of the Study of Programming Languages

The Role of the Study of Programming Languages in the Education of a Programmer
Daniel P. Friedman

Surely we've mentioned this before, maybe not?

An interactive historical roster of computer languages

A very interesting site dedicated to the history of programming languages.

The navigation is a bit clunky, and I am still not sure I understand all the features of the site, but the database is impressive (use the "search" button on the right hand side of the window to open the search frame).

The site includes amusing statistics (e.g., which decade produced the most programming languages?)

It would be interesting to see what LtU readers think about the taxonomy used here. It's quite fine-grained.