Hi, I received my used copy of "Interactive Programming Environments" (https://www.amazon.com/Interactive-Programming-Environments-David-Barstow/dp/0070038856) and I found it a good collection of papers from the 80s. I enjoyed the paper "Beyond Programming Languages" by Terry Winograd that it is available here: https://john.cs.olemiss.edu/~dwilkins/Seminar/S05/winogradPL.pdf The main thesis of the paper is the following: "The fundamental use of a programming system is not in creating sequences of instructions for accomplishing tasks, but in expressing and manipulating descriptions of computational processes and the objects on which they are carried out."

sounds like a great paper, thanks for sharing!

Seconded - this is a fantastic paper and right up my alley!

Just as high level languages enabled the programmer to escape from the intricacies of a machine's order code, higher level programming systems can provide help in understanding and manipulating complex systems and components.