From: derek@_NOSPAM_knosof.co.uk   
      
   Steve,   
      
   >> I'm looking for PhD thesis or books covering the history of   
   >> popular, or once popular languages (not edited   
   >> collections of papers on different languages). ...   
   >   
   > There is ZPL from the University of Washington.  See   
   >   
   > https://research.cs.washington.edu/zpl/home/index.html   
      
   There are umpteen thesis that describe the design of yet   
   another language.   
      
   On the whole, the creation of new languages is vanity research,   
   and it's been going on for a long time:   
   http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2017/05/21/evidence-f   
   r-28-possible-compilers-in-1957/   
      
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