On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 9:03 PM, boB Stepp <robertvst...@gmail.com> wrote: > In the beginning (I assume.) there was machine code and only machine > code. And I imagine this was not very good. Then I assume the next > step was assembler, which probably only moderated the (then) tedium of > coding. Then real high level languages were started to be developed, > and this was very good. And then there were various new programming > paradigms developed, and so on. What I am wondering is, is there a > good book that covers in relatively good detail how we started at the > most primitive level, machine code, and evolved to our current > wonderful cornucopia of languages, operating systems, etc.? As the > different threads reveal bits and pieces of the low level guts of > Python, I am becoming more and more fascinated about how all of this > is managed. Just the brief discussion of garbage collection details > going on I find quite interesting. > > -- > boB
you might start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_programming_languages -- Joel Goldstick http://joelgoldstick.com _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
