This book (1994, reprint 1995) is an expansion of the author's paper for ACM HOPL-II, the 2nd conference on the History of Programming Languages in 1993. See also the Wikipedia article on [[ HOPL ]].
For ACM HOPL-III in 2007, Stroustrup has written a new paper on "Evolving a language in and for the real world: C++ 1991-2006". A near-final preprint is available at http://www.research.att.com/~bs/hopl-...( )
For ACM HOPL-III in 2007, Stroustrup has written a new paper on "Evolving a language in and for the real world: C++ 1991-2006". A near-final preprint is available at http://www.research.att.com/~bs/hopl-... (