While doing my customary "whatever happened to" sweep, I ran across this
paper of Jules Schwartz (he of JOVIAL) A refreshingly frank evaluation
from the author from 1978.
http://jovial.com/documents/p203-schwartz-jovial.pdf
(Tidbit: The "J" in JOVIAL does stand for "Jules'", but was not
of his
doing--rather, he relates that it was done behind his back.)
Just on the subject of "languages and how we got here."
--Chuck