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Language Design Documents
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Ehud Lamm - Language Design Documents

7/31/2000; 1:51:23 PM (reads: 13841, responses: 1)

This page should provide links to documents discussing the design of various languages, including language standards when appropriate. I prefer links to documents from the original design process.

Ada Steelman (The requirements doc which led to Ada)
Ada 95 Language Study Notes
Ada-83 Rationale
Ada-95 Rationale

A Personal View of APL - Kenneth E. Iverson

C Standards Committee (JTC1/SC22/WG14)

C++ Standards Committee Papers

A History of CLU - Barbara Liskov

Erlang Development

The Haskell Report

The Original Java Whitepaper

LISP History according to McCarthy's memory in 1978

The design and implementation of Mercury

Modula-3 Language Definition

Larry Wall on Perl 6: Apocalypse: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.

Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs)

Engineering a Programming Language: The Type and Class System of Sather

Design Principles Behind Smalltalk - Ingalls
Squeak OOPSLA Paper (Back to the Future) - Smalltalk