A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (james-iry.blogspot.com)
from troyunrau@lemmy.ca to programming@programming.dev on 27 Nov 2024 19:54
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solrize@lemmy.world on 27 Nov 2024 19:57 next collapse

Old but classic.

troyunrau@lemmy.ca on 27 Nov 2024 20:01 collapse

I am old, so this tracks ;)

actually@lemmy.world on 27 Nov 2024 20:13 next collapse

I’m really unclear about when this was written, but it does not include rust or type safety

MajorHavoc@programming.dev on 27 Nov 2024 20:15 next collapse

Yeah. I’m sure it predates Rust by the simple evidence that it doesn’t take any cheap shots at Rust.

troyunrau@lemmy.ca on 27 Nov 2024 20:16 next collapse

2009ish

dabaldeagul@feddit.nl on 29 Nov 2024 12:37 collapse

URL includes /2009/05/ so I imagine May 2009.

sukhmel@programming.dev on 29 Nov 2024 19:25 collapse

Or earlier, possibly

MajorHavoc@programming.dev on 27 Nov 2024 20:15 next collapse

It may not be true but it’s accurate.

catalyst@lemmy.world on 28 Nov 2024 00:24 next collapse

Ok the javascript paragraph made me laugh.

arendjr@programming.dev on 30 Nov 2024 10:12 collapse

I would love to see Go, Rust, Swift and Kotlin added to this. Anyone willing to take a shot?