What is PL about?
What is a Compiler: History and Structure
- Some Notes about What is a Compiler (google slides) (pdf)
- What is a Compiler? slides by Eelco Visser. TU Delft. September 2018
- What is a linker?
Complementary References
- OO History: Simula and Smalltalk
- Some History of Functional Programming Languages by D. A. Turner. University of Kent & Middlesex University