{"id":6249,"date":"2020-06-13T16:36:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-13T20:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/?p=6249"},"modified":"2020-06-13T16:37:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-13T20:37:23","slug":"history-of-matlab-published-by-the-acm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/2020\/06\/13\/history-of-matlab-published-by-the-acm\/","title":{"rendered":"History of MATLAB Published by the ACM"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content\"><!--introduction--><p>\"A History of MATLAB\", a 67-page paper that Jack Little and I have written, has been <a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/3386331\">published<\/a> by the ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, in the <i>Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages<\/i>, <a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/journal\/pacmpl\">volume 4, June 2020<\/a>.<\/p><!--\/introduction--><p>The publication had been intended to accompany HOPL IV, the Fourth ACM SIGPLAN History of Programming Languages Conference, scheduled to <a href=\"https:\/\/hopl4.sigplan.org\/\">begin tomorrow<\/a> in London. The conference has been postponed, but the proceedings have arrived on schedule.<\/p><p>There are 50 archival references and almost 40 additional non-archival references in the paper, many of them to this blog. There are 34 figures, including several MathWorks company portraits in a photo gallery appendix.<\/p><p>The Proceedings on Programming Languages in the ACM Digital Library is published with open access, so the HOPL IV papers are freely available to ACM members and nonmembers alike.<\/p><p>In addition to MATLAB, the 19 papers in the HOPL IV volume include histories of APL, C++, Clojure, Fortran coarrays, D, Emacs Lisp, F#, Groovy, JavaScript, LabVIEW, Logo, Cambridge Polish, Objective-C, Oz, R, S, Smalltalk, ML, and Verilog HDL.<\/p><p>Here are the first four pages of our MATLAB history.  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