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Resources on language design

Note: I’ve tried to focus this on design as a distinct activity - @spdegabrielle

Growing a Language by Guy Steele (video) The remarks on language design begins at the 40 minute mark. (If you haven't seen it before, don't skip the beginning of the talk)
Brian Kernighan on Language Design (video)

History of Programming Languages

Other histories

History of Lisp https://doi.org/10.1145/800025.1198360
A history of Erlang by Joe Armstrong
Early History of Smalltalk by Alan Kay
The Design of APL The Evolution of APL
A history of Haskell: being lazy with class
Modula-2 and Oberon by Niklaus Wirth
A history of ALGOL 68 by C. H. Lindsey

Need to find/add resources on the design of: Java, Javascript, C, C++, and Prolog. (and any others deemed notable)

Lisp

Olin Shivers account of 'T'(a lisp) http://www.paulgraham.com/thist.html
Accounts of Lisp development: http://www.nhplace.com/kent/Papers/cl-untold-story.html

Special Interest Group on Programming Languages

The ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN) explores programming language concepts and tools, focusing on design, implementation, practice, and theory. Its members are programming language developers, educators, implementers, researchers, theoreticians, and users. https://www.acm.org/special-interest-groups/sigs/sigplan

ACM Programming Usability SIG meeting 2016

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~NatProg/programminglanguageusability/ 2016 meeting notes: http://tinyurl.com/ProgLangUsabilitySig (Google docs)

Books

Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation by Shriram Krishnamurthi (see the PLAI Typed Language #lang plai-typed)
Essentials of Programming Languages by Daniel P. Friedman and Mitchell Wand (Publisher)
Design Concepts in Programming Languages by Franklyn Turbak, David Gifford and Mark Sheldon
Programming Language Pragmatics by Michael L. Scott
Practical Foundations for Programming Languages by Professor Robert Harper
Principles of Programming Languages: Design, Evaluation, and Implementation by Bruce J. MacLennan
Advanced Programming Language Design by Raphael Finkel
Lisp in Small Pieces by Christian Queinnec and covers 'semantics and the implementation of the whole Lisp family of languages, namely Lisp, Scheme and related dialects. It describes 11 interpreters and 2 compilers'
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - teaches computer science by teaching students how to implement interpreters. (see also the Racket #lang sicp designed to go with the book)
Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming (2004) by Peter Van Roy

Smalltalk, an influential language design: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-08

http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~pszgmh/123.pdf

‘Crash Course on Notation in Programming Language Theory’ by Jeremy Siek http://siek.blogspot.com/2012/07/crash-course-on-notation-in-programming.html

‘A practitioner’s guide to reading programming languages papers’ by Adrian Colyer https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/01/26/a-practitioners-guide-to-reading-programming-languages-papers/