History of Programming Languages
Prerequisites Ideally, a PhD student should have taken Intensive Principles of Programming Languages. An undergraduate or an MS student should have taken Principles of Programming Languages and studied some additional topics of interest outside of courses.
8.1.0.2 In this seminar course, we will study themes in the programming language research area from a historical perspective. This idea of "several steps" is distinct from the modern idea of publishing every single thought that occurred to someone over breakfast so that the dean can get a high count for her yearly report. The primary goal is to understand some of the major themes in the discipline as it exists today and how these themes evolved in several steps. Initially, the seminar will focus on two themes close to the instructor’s heart: how semantics emerged and how languages evolved…
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