History of Programming Languages
To date, there have been two conferences focusing on programming languages. The Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN) of the Association for Computing Machinery sponsored two "History of Programming Languages (HOPL)" conferences. The first of these took place in Los Angeles in 1978, and focused on thirteen early languages: ALGOL, APL, APT, BASIC, COBOL, FORTRAN, GPSS, JOSS, JOVIAL, LISP, PL/I, SIMULA, and SNOBOL. The prospectus for the first HOPL conferences stipulated that to be considered, the languages had to have been "created and in use by 1967, remain in use in 1977, and had a considerable influence on the field of computing."
The second HOPL conference took place in Cambridge, MA in 1994, and focused on fourteen later languages: Ada, ALGOL 68, C, C++, Discrete Simulation Languages, FORMAC, Forth, Icon, Lisp, Monitors and concurrent Pascal, Pascal, Prolog, and Smalltalk. The prospectus for the second HOPL conference......

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