Let's do a "best of" ACM, to list everyone's favorite articles.
First thing that comes to mind for me are the series of articles presented at HOPL conferences, History of Programming Languages.
HOPL II (1993) https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/154766
HOPL III (2007) https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/1238844
HOPL IV (2021) https://dl.acm.org/do/10.1145/event-12215/abs/