In 1996, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation funded a proposal to establish HoTNET: A History of Technology Network. The HotNET projects are exploring the  use of web-based tools to capture histories of selected recent technologies.  At the present time, there are 20 active Sloan Projects.

The primary purpose of this site is to provide a forum in which interested individuals can participate in on-line discussions of programming language and software engineering topics.  It is hoped, that in time, such discussions will result in publishable articles or serve as the basis for conferences on selected topics.  A secondary purpose is to archive original documents, materials, and commentaries associated with specific programming languages and software engineering tools and techniques.

We hope that this site will become a meeting place and forum for like-minded individuals to examine the history of programming languages and software engineering.

Students or other visitors may want to visit our visitor's lounge where we have material suitable for a general audience.