One Div Zero: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
1970 - Guy Steele and Gerald Sussman create Scheme. Their work leads to a series of "Lambda the Ultimate" papers culminating in "Lambda the Ultimate Kitchen Utensil." This paper becomes the basis for a long running, but ultimately unsuccessful run of late night infomercials. Lambdas are relegated to relative obscurity until Java makes them popular by not having them.
Brilliant and hilarious. No matter what your preferred code flavor, you'll enjoy this.
