The thank you page
Thank you to these people
- Dr Valerie Hobbs for co-designing the Gernsback interface to the site
- Steve Poulson for helping with the collection of manuals, support in general
- Bruce Axtens for joining in with the collection process and encouraging me to get it up again
- Professor John Gammack for continued support and input on the sociocultural aspects
- Peter Cole and Danny Toohey for support running previous versions of HOPL at Murdoch
- Patrick Pigott for tracking down things and checking for errors and generally encouraging me
Pioneers
No-one starts from scratch. I couldn't have done it but for these people
- Jean Sammet for general direction, useful corrections and kicking the entire thing off in 1969
- Bill Kennersley for creating the Languages List which provided a solid basis for my work
- The contributors to the HOPL conferences and the Annals of the History of Computing
- The many anonymous donors to FOLDOC and Wikipaedia
Other suggestions for the site and interface
- Bob Karash for useful comments regarding the role HOPL can play in education
- Bruce Damer for positive comments, and running the Digibarn
- Ehud Lamm of the Lambda the ultimate... blog for constructive disagreement
- Emden Gansner for helping me with DOT and drawing the family trees when they got too big to work
- Jean-Marie Favre for some insights into the nature of the data
- Paul McLeod for suggesting the Touchgraph / Hypergraph
- Pixel (his nom de web) for some helpful nit-picking
- Russ Wade for his feedback and comments
- Ben Dugan for his fascinating paper on the idea-historical nature of the OOP
- Thomas Bergin for valuable feedback
Collaborators on language and machine families, single languages and reminiscences
Many people have volunteered information from their personal experience, and I list them below. Others have helped with the overall project as well, for which I am most grateful (names sorted alphabetically):
- Alan Heckert for OMNITAB (and the copy of the manual for Omnitab 80)
- Alastair Bland
- Alastair Boyanich for Russian Computers
- Anton Eliens for DLP
- the late Bob Bemer for UNIVAC and IBM languages, especially PRINT
- Bradford Miller for Rhet
- Brian Gaines for the British JOSSes and BASICs
- Bruce Clement for ADD 1 TO COBOL GIVING COBOL
- Bruce R. Montague for IBSYS and BESYS
- Clark Baker, Daniel J Grim for Delisa
- David Kestenbaum for LOGO
- David Ng for TAL
- David Pickett for RPG
- Elena Kalina for the ANALITIK languages
- Eric Foxley for the English Autocodes and assembling the material online
- Franck Di Maio for MacNodal
- Frank da Cruz for the 650 languages
- G.A.Michael for the Livermore Languages
- Graham Toal for the Edinburgh languages, and his wonderful site
- Greg Nunan for help with the Algol 68s
- Jacob Palme for GNOSIS
- James Gillies for NODAL
- Jeffrey Haemer for CITRAN and help on the unusual bit about the Aardvarks
- John Barrett for the DEUCE material
- Kees Koster for help on ELAN and Algol 68 reminiscences (showing the other side!)
- L.L.Doig for China Lake languages
- Larry Breed for APL
- Larry Breed for the APL stuff
- Lau Gatignon for NODAL
- Leif Harcke for RAWOOP, SNAP and the other RW languages
- Mel Pullen for MINT and SNIBBOL
- Michael Osborne for Accell
- Mike Jenkins for his Array languages (including Alice and NIAL as well)
- Norm Patton for the SOHIO autocode
- Octo Barnett for MUMPS
- Paul McJones for FORTRAN stuff
- Paul Niquette for ealry language information and for thinking of the word software
- Peter Flass for the PL/I systems
- Rob Kolstad for programmign at Oklahoma
- Pyara Dhillon for conversations about Actus
- Richard Gillmann for QX
- Richard Walters for UC Davis MUMPS
- Jim Cordy for the various languages he was party to (too many to list)
- Robert Caillou for NODAL
- Stefan Silverston for SNOBAT
- Steve Apter for introducing me to APL, and sending me the APL2 books which started HOPL for me (1991) (Hi Steve!)
- Susumu Kamada for SAD
- Thomas Kuehne for D
- Tim Berners-Lee for NODAL and HTML
- Tom Beyer for MADCAP
- Udo Krause for GSI NODAL
- Ulrik Petersen for MQL
- Vic Basili for The SIMPL family of languages and GRAAL
If I left anyone out, I apologise for the oversight. There have been lots of mails over the years with positive feedback - thanks!