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Home page for Paul McJones
I'm a member of the Software Preservation Group, starting with a FORTRAN project to collect source code and documents from the early history of the FORTRAN programming language and also LISP, ALGOL, C++, PAL, GEDANKEN, Mesa, Poplar, Prolog, and SETL projects for the corresponding programming languages.
I maintain a blog called Dusty Decks where I chronicle my collection activities; you can email me at paul@mcjones.org. Other software history projects that I've been involved with include:- a System R web site for the IBM research project that gave birth to the SQL query language, query optimization techniques and transaction semantics that give modern database systems their performance and expressiveness.
- a Cal TSS web site for the U.C. Berkeley research project that built one of the first capability-oriented operating systems.