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Dead medium: dead computer languages
From: wex@media.mit.edu (Dan Rabin)
Source(s): Wexelblat, Richard (ed.) "History Of Programming Languages" Academic Press (HBJ), ISBN 0-12-745040-8

Dead computer languages covered in "History of Programming Languages"



Fortran I, II and III


ALGOL 58 and 60


Lisp 1 and 1.5


COBOL (the dead-ness of this language may be debatable)


APT


JOVIAL


SIMULA I and 67


JOSS


PL/1


SNOBOL


APL (ditto)

Also: check out http://www.indiana.edu/~sharp

It's nominally the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (ie books), but also has links to some older (dead) book-related tech, including papyrus, illuminated manuscripts, and medieval blockbooks.

Alan