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Programming Languages: History and Fundamentals (Automatic Computation)
by Jean E. Sammet
ISBN: 0137299885
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earthicus
· 2019-03-28 ·
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According to an amazon reviewer [1], Sammet's book Programming Languages: History and Fundamentals (from 1969) already discusses ~120 different languages! And gives code examples in 30 of them.
[1]
https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Languages-Fundamentals-Au...
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Languages-Fundamentals-Au...