{"id":61,"date":"2007-06-11T20:00:41","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T04:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/archives\/2007\/06\/11\/61\/"},"modified":"2024-05-08T15:59:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T22:59:12","slug":"c-historical-sources-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/archives\/2007\/06\/11\/61\/","title":{"rendered":"C++ Historical Sources Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Observant audience members at Bjarne Stroustrup&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/proceedings\/10.1145\/1238844\">HOPL-III<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stroustrup.com\/hopl-almost-final.pdf\">C++ talk<\/a> this past weekend may have noticed on the last slide a mention of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.softwarepreservation.org\/projects\/c_plus_plus\">C++ Historical Sources Archive<\/a> at the Computer History Museum. This is a project Bjarne and I have been working on in the background for a year or two. Bjarne convinced the appropriate authorities at AT&amp;T to approve releasing the Cfront source code, and then dug up listings, documentation, and\/or machine-readable source for Cfront releases E, 2.0, and 3.0. Willem Wakker kindly supplied a copy of release 1.0. We have also tracked down some early <a href=\"https:\/\/www.softwarepreservation.org\/projects\/c_plus_plus\/library\/\">libraries<\/a> including libg++, COOL, LEDA, Array_Alg, STL, InterViews, ET++, and more. We would be very interested also in early applications written in C++ (especially pre-1990).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the way, what was previously called the Software Collection Committee at the Computer History Museum has a new name (the Software Preservation Group), a new domain name (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.softwarepreservation.org\/\">www.softwarepreservation.org<\/a>) and a new chairman (Al Kossow, the Museum&#8217;s Software Curator and the creator of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitsavers.org\/\">www.bitsavers.org<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong> 2024\/05\/08: Updated URLs for HOPL III and Bjarne&#8217;s talk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Observant audience members at Bjarne Stroustrup&#8217;s HOPL-III C++ talk this past weekend may have noticed on the last slide a mention of the C++ Historical Sources Archive at the Computer History Museum. This is a project Bjarne and I have been working on in the background for a year or two. Bjarne convinced the appropriate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/archives\/2007\/06\/11\/61\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;C++ Historical Sources Archive&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c","category-repositories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1370,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/1370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}