Good Ideas, Through the Looking Glass [PDF] by Pascal creator Niklaus Wirth, is an interesting look at some ideas - both successful and not-so-successful - from the past decades of computing.
posted by JeffL on Oct 3, 2012 - 39 comments

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
posted by Artw on May 8, 2009 - 47 comments