Here&#x27;s a few things I found myself, if anyone is interested:<p>Book: MacLellan&#x27;s Principles of Programming Languages. The principles are listed here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lshift.net&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2006&#x2F;06&#x2F;24&#x2F;bruce-j-maclennans-programming-language-design-principles&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lshift.net&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2006&#x2F;06&#x2F;24&#x2F;bruce-j-maclennans-pro...</a><p>Book: Masterminds of Programming. Interviews with the designers of many languages. Not all equally good.<p>Papers and Media: History of Programming Languages, proceedings 1-3. The third one includes video. (Paywalled -need an ACM subscription) Many classic articles including Kay on Smalltalk, Richie on C, McCarthy on Lisp. Iverson on APL. More recent languages include Haskell, Self, Lua. Many obscure but interesting languages like ZPL, Beta, Modula, etc.