The Software Revolution (Peter Norton, 1987)

They are also available at the internet archive https://archive.org/details/PC-Mag-1987-01-13/page/n75/mode/...

> A three-part series on the ongoing revolution in programming languages and environments

Part 2: https://books.google.com/books?id=w3AJLvysWFQC&lpg=PP1&hl=en... Part 3: https://books.google.com/books?id=phxlBt4dX3oC&lpg=PP1&hl=en...