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This is the "scratch pad" for the "Readings in the History of Programming" main site. Here we list candidate references for inclusion and discussion.

Books

• http://www.springer.com/us/book/9781848825543
• https://www.amazon.com/Machinery-Dominance-Technical-Know-How-Northeastern/dp/155553046X
• https://www.amazon.com/Gender-Codes-Women-Leaving-Computing/dp/0470597194
• https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/government-machine
• https://www.amazon.com/Computer-History-Information-Machine-Technology/dp/0813345901
• https://www.amazon.com/History-Modern-Computing/dp/0262532034

Articles & blogs

• https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2017-04-17-xxx-fixme/
• http://www.sigcis.org/files/A%20brief%20history.pdf

Lore

• http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html
• http://otscripts.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Mel-php-tek.pdf
• ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/cm/lgp30/papertapes/Games/bkjck.tx
• The C2 Wiki (which is itself historically significant)

Previous work

• https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/the-making-of-myths

Other

• Point to (and keep supporting) the Internet Archive https://archive.org/about/