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| PhD or books on history of individual languages derek@_NOSPAM_knosof.co.uk (Derek M. Jones) (2018-11-22) |
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| From: | "Derek M. Jones" <derek@_NOSPAM_knosof.co.uk> |
| Newsgroups: | comp.compilers |
| Date: | Sat, 24 Nov 2018 19:49:54 +0000 |
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| References: | 18-11-009 18-11-010 18-11-011 18-11-012 |
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| Keywords: | books, history |
| Posted-Date: | 24 Nov 2018 19:42:31 EST |
| In-Reply-To: | 18-11-012 |
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Louis,
> You might be the person to read some of those papers and write one of
> those books. You'll have a perspective that the language designers
> themselves might not have had.
I have enough enthusiasm to read them, not write them.
Historians of computing tend to be primarily hardware based
https://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2018/03/13/historians-of-computing/
Social scientists and English majors are missing out on
writing about an unexplored area of knowledge.
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