... wrote: In comp.lang.fortran Brooks Moses <bmoses-nospam@cits1.stanford.edu> wrote: The presentation was "A Dozen Precursors to Fortran"; described at http://www.computerhistory.org/events/lectures/donknuth_12032003/. The corresponding paper is "The Early Development of Programming Languages", which is included in his _Selected Papers on Computer Languages_. ...

In comp.lang.fortran Brooks Moses <bmoses-nospam@cits1.stanford.edu> wrote: The presentation was "A Dozen Precursors to Fortran"; described at http://www.computerhistory.org/events/lectures/donknuth_12032003/. The corresponding paper is "The Early Development of Programming Languages", which is included in his _Selected Papers on Computer Languages_. According to the ...

... and insightful. Even many "languages" that were never actually implemented had influences. The presentation was "A Dozen Precursors to Fortran"; described at http://www.computerhistory.org/events/lectures/donknuth_12032003/. The corresponding paper is "The Early Development of Programming Languages", which is included in his _Selected Papers on Computer Languages_. - Brooks, ...