mcjones.org ...

... is the home of several web sites including:

• People
  • Paul McJones
  • McJones Road Trips (Paul's family)
  • Fowler (Paul's father's mother's family)
  • Prater (Paul's mother's father's family)
• Software
  • Dusty Decks (blogging the preservation of historic software)
  • CAL SNOBOL (nonstandard implementation of SNOBOL4)
  • System R (birthplace of SQL)

Related:

• Elements of Programming  (book by Stepanov and McJones)
• Cal Time-Sharing System (early capability-based operating system)
• CRMS APL (nonstandard APL for real-time behavioral experiments)
• Software Preservation Group (history of FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, C++, Prolog, SETL, Modula-3, ...)

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Last modified 25 June 2025.