From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at   
      
   "Derek M. Jones"  writes:   
   >All,   
   >   
   >I looking for manuals for languages from the 1950s,   
   >the earlier the better.   
      
   Not a manual, but "The Early Development of Programming Languages" by   
   Donald Knuth and Luis Trabb Pardo is a longish paper that provides a   
   nice overview, as well as lots of literature references.  It is   
   reprinted in Knuth's "Selected Papers on Computer Languages".   
      
   - anton   
   --   
   M. Anton Ertl   
   anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at   
   http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/   
      
   [Good thought -- it's 90 pages of Knuthy goodness.  You can find a   
   scan of a version released as a Stanford tech report at   
   https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA032123 -John]   
      
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