Hi,
I am working in a research lab having people using C/Matlab code to analyze their data. However, everyone writes their own code (non modular and often poorly documented).

I have an opportunity to do a presentation on
- Concept of a modular programming and conventions
- Setting up a C/Matlab Code library for easy access

I would like to provide some information to people as to when the concept of library came into existense. A history... and some other interesting events that occured in the programming world. Maybe the first open source library etc.

Please let me know if you have any interesting links or information that I can present. Ofcourse, I would defenetly provide the necessary reference.

Thanks in advance.

nipun