Guy Steele & Richard Gabriel: 50 in 50
For those who like their PL History presented in avante guard beat poetry, a video of Steele & Gabriel's 50 in 50 speech at JAOO is made to order. Or as the link says:
A fun, artistic and enlightning presentation full of interesting facts - and who better to do it than Richard P. Gabriel and Guy L. Steele (the great Quux). Nothing more to say than the rallying cry; More cowbell!
Passing aside the Stephen Wright comic delivery of the two speakers, there are a lot of interesting thoughts, though very few are dwelled on. I think the most interesting things were the languages that they chose as expositions for the major ideas that they covered. Here's the ones that I picked out (though I ended up with only 49):
Do Loops | Fortran (Pascal,APL) | Guarded Commands | Algol-68 | Array Origin | C, Fortan, Pascal, APL | Extensible Language | PPL | Domain Specific Language | APT | Structured Programming | BLISS, INTERCAL | Text vs. Environment | Algol-60, Lisp, Smalltalk | Language as Educational Tool | Logo | Stack Machines | Befunge (SECD Machine, Forth) | Formal Dynamic Semantics | SECD | Data Parallelism | APL | Enumerated Types | Pascal | Coercion | PL/I (Fortran-V) | Backtracking and Theorem Proving | Conniver (Prolog) | Hierarchical Records | COBOL | Argument Handling | Common Lisp, Ada, Python (VB, C#, Suneido, PL/pgSQ) | Pointers & Lists | IPL-V | Coding in Natural Language | Perligata (COBOL, Hypercard) | Parsing | Yacc (LR1, Recursive Descent) | Computational Drama | Shakespeare | Linked Records | AED | Reasoning | Prolog | Mathematical Syntax | MADCAP, MIRFAC, Kleerer-May System | Type Declarators | C | Line Numbers | Basic (Focal, APL) | Data Abstraction | CLU, Alphard | Visual Languages | Piet | Dynamic vs. Lexical Scoping | Scheme | Pattern Matching & Replacement | COMIT, SNOBOL | Knowledge Representation | KRL (Conniver, Microplanner) | Branding | Ada (COMIT, SNOBOL, TRAC) | Stream Processing | Lucid | Dynamic Languages | AMBIT/L | Generic Functions | Common Lisp | Program as Data | Lisp | Reflection | 3-Lisp | Macro Processor | TRAC, ML/I, Limp, M4 | Metacircular Interpreters | Lisp | Call By Name vs. Call By Value | C, Algol-60 | Functional Programming | KRC | Dangling Else | Algol-60 | Control Parallelism | Occam | Formal Static Semantics | Algol-68 | Domain Specific Languages | HQ9+, MUMBLE | Algebraic Formula Manipulation | Formac (Macsyma, Mathematica) | Build Languages | Make, Ant, Rake (JCL) | Message Passing | Smalltalk (C++, C#, Java, Flavors, Common Loops, CLOS, Scheme, Dylan, Simula, Self) | Scripting | Perl | Objects | Simula (Smalltalk, C++, Java) | | |
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