What is this? This description was written by a machine and published without a person checking it. It is what the agent made of this grouping, and not a statement anybody has stood behind.

The designer's own account

A subject the papers are about. The loosest grouping, and the one to reach for last.

A language's designer giving their own account of how it came to be as it is. Collects first-person design retrospectives, chiefly from the History of Programming Languages conferences. Membership requires the author to have designed the thing described; a history written by anyone else belongs elsewhere.