I have not read the book, but seeing the principal programming paradigm poster makes me think about how good it is because Java and Smalltalk are wrongly categorized, at least for what I understand of the poster (java with closure, smalltalk not in the message passing category) On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 8:11 AM, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar@gmail.com>wrote:
On 23 May 2012 12:00, Max Leske <maxleske@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm looking for a good book on programming language history with a focus on the different paradigms (e.g. imperative, functional, â¦). Any suggestions?
Peter Van Roy's and Seif Haridi' "Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming" [1] has loads on the different paradigms and comparing them. Not a lot on the _history_ of those though.
ACM's HOPL conferences would provide the history of particular languages.
Between those two sources you ought to be able to construct something like what you need by mapping CTM's "this model uses these paradigms" to the HOPL papers.
frank
[1] http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/book.html
Thanks, Max
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