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, �). 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