The History of Programming Languages [Infographic]

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by janektm • 15 years ago

7 2 15 years ago

So, it's a history of Programming Languages, but it leaves out Smalltalk and Lisp? No Prolog, no ML? No Haskell, Erlang? No C#, forchristsakes? Ruby on Rails is now a "Language"? What next, jQuery, Django, and POSIX?

Excuse the anguish, but it's rare to see a less informative infographic.

Let alone the fact that it's not an inforgraphic, it's text content in an annoyingly non-text format.

ColinWright• 15 years ago

Here's something I did a while back. It seems that many languages are developed because of a perceived shortcoming in another language. For fun, I mapped some of these:

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/images/LanguageFix.png

ADDED IN EDIT: I've now realised this was in response to a PG essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/fix.html

FURTHER EDIT: Now a separate submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2816526

The History of Programming Languages [Infographic]

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