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It has been announced that scans of the original CDC 6000 Pascal compiler source code, from 1976, are now available online.

The Smalltalk Archeology Archive has been announced. It contains information about old Smalltalk implementations, including screenshots.

Martin Odersky has written an article entitled 'A Brief History of Scala'. Scala is a statically typed, extensible, multi-paradigm language, offering object-oriented and functional capabilities.

The article gives some background into Prof. Odersky's past work, including his involvement with languages such as Funnel and the Pizza and GJ extensions to Java. It continues to briefly describe the design goals of Scala, as well as the existing implementations and the state of the Scala community.

Guido van Rossum has announced that he is looking for Python-related memories from long-time users. He may use some of the stories for a paper on Python he is writing for the Third ACM SIGPLAN History of Programming Languages Conference (HOPL-III).

Paul McJones has announced that five ACM-copyrighted articles concerning FORTRAN are now available at the History of FORTRAN and FORTRAN II web site of the Computer History Museum.

Included are articles such as "A Technological Review of the FORTRAN I Compiler", by F.E. Allen, and "The history of FORTRAN I, II and III", by John Backus.