[Tutor] OT: Is there a good book that covers the history/evolution of software? [Inspired by the thread: lists, name semantics]

[Joel Goldstick]

On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 9:03 PM, boB Stepp <robertvstepp at gmail.com> wrote:
> In the beginning (I assume.) there was machine code and only machine
> code. And I imagine this was not very good. Then I assume the next
> step was assembler, which probably only moderated the (then) tedium of
> coding. Then real high level languages were started to be developed,
> and this was very good. And then there were various new programming
> paradigms developed, and so on. What I am wondering is, is there a
> good book that covers in relatively good detail how we started at the
> most primitive level, machine code, and evolved to our current
> wonderful cornucopia of languages, operating systems, etc.? As the
> different threads reveal bits and pieces of the low level guts of
> Python, I am becoming more and more fascinated about how all of this
> is managed. Just the brief discussion of garbage collection details
> going on I find quite interesting.
>
> --
> boB

you might start here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_programming_languages

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Joel Goldstick
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