"Ellen likes to say that programmers create systems in their own image and according to their own desires. They were among the first to experience the lifestyle that we all take for granted now: asynchronous, machine-mediated, always on."
"The History of Programming Languages Conference was organized by the Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN) of the Association for Computing Machinery, and took place in Los Angeles on June 1-3, 1978. The purpose of the conference was