Bergin’s timeline:

  • 1966 “The Use of English as a Programming Language.” Jean E.Sammet. Communications of the ACM 9,3 (Mar. 1966), 228-230; http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/365230.365274.
  • 1967 Saul Rosen, Ed. Programming Systems and Languages. McGraw-Hill, New York. Note: The largest single source of articles is from Communications of the ACM.
  • 1967 “Fundamental Concepts of Programming Languages.” Computers and Automation 16, 2.
  • 1967 “Roster of Programming Languages.” Jean E. Sammet. Computers and Automation 16, 6, 120-123.
  • 1968 “Roster of Programming Languages,” Jean E. Sammet. Computers and Automation 16, 6B, 80-82.
  • 1969 “Roster of Programming Languages.” Jean E. Sammet. Computers and Automation 18, 7, 80-82.
  • 1969 Jean E. Sammet. Programming Languages: History and Fundamentals. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
  • 1970 “Roster of Programming Languages.” Jean E. Sammet. Computers and Automation 19, 6, 6-11.
  • 1971 “Roster of Programming Language — 1971.” Jean E. Sammet, Computers and Automation 20,6,6-13.
  • 1972 “Roster of Programming Languages.” Jean E. Sammet. Computers and Automation 21, 6.
  • 1972 “Programming Languages: History and Future.” Jean E. Sammet. Communications of the ACM 15, 7 (July), 601-610; http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/361454.361485
  • 1974 “Roster of Programming Languages for 1973.” Jean E. Sammet. Computing Reviews 15, 4 (Apr.), 147-162.
  • 1976 “Roster of Programming Languages for 1974-75.” Jean E. Sammet. Communications of the ACM 19, 12 (Dec.), 655-669.
  • 1978 “Pre-Prints–History of Programming Languages Conference.” ACM SIGPLAN Notices 13, 8; http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/960118.808394.
  • 1978 “Roster of Programming Languages for 1976-77,” Jean E. Sammet. ACM SIGPLAN Notices 13, 11, 56-85; http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/953777.953783.
  • 1978 June 1-3, ACM SIGPLAN History of Programming Languages Conference, Los Angeles CA.
  • 1981 Richard Wexelblat. History of Programming Languages. Academic Press, New York.
  • 1981 “An Overview of High-Level Languages.” Jean E. Sammet. In Advances in Computers, Vol. 20, Academic Press, New York.
  • 1985 “Brief Summary of the Early History of COBOL,” Jean E. Sammet; and “Summary of Changes in COBOL, 1960-1985,” Jean E. Sammet and Jerome Garfunkle. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing Special Issue on COBOL 7, 4 (July); http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MAHC.1985.10033.
  • 1990 Proposal to SIGPLAN for HOPL-II.
  • 1991 “Some Approaches to, and Illustrations of, Programming Language History.” Jean E. Sammet. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 13, 1, 33-50; http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MAHC.1991.10001.
  • 1993 “Pre-Prints–History of Programming Languages Conference (HOPL-II).” ACM SIGPLAN Notices 28, 3 (Mar.)
  • 1993 April 20-23, ACM Second SIGPLAN History of Programming Languages Conference (HOPL II), Cambridge, MA.
  • 1996 Thomas J. Bergin, Jr. and Richard G. Gibson, Jr. History of Programming Languages, ACM Press/Addison-Wesley, New York.
  • 1996 HOPL-II Conference Banquet. SIGPLAN Notices 31, 11 (Nov.), 9-20; http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/240964.1198155.
  • 1997 HOPL-II Closing Panel: The History of Programming: Does Our Present Past Have a Future? SIGPLAN Notices 32, 9 (Sept.), 15-37; http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/270507.270509.
  • 2004 Planning starts for HOPL-III; recruitment of Program Committee.
  • 2005 Sept.9-11, first Program Committee meeting in Newark,NJ.
  • 2006 Apr.6-7,second Program Committee meeting in Newark,NJ.
  • 2007 June 9-10, Third ACM SIGPLAN History of Programming Languages Conference (HOPL-III), San Diego, CA.