For the geek in all of us…
I stumbled on a couple of articles recently pointing out the history of programming languages. What originally pointed me at this was an article in Nikhil Kothari’s blog. He pointed to a chart on O’Reilly’s website which listed out the history of programming languages from the 1950’s right through to the present. A copy of the chart is availble for download as a PDF. It’s amazing to see which languages influenced others… and how old some are. I personally had no idea that Ruby had been around since February 1993 (Same approximate time as AppleScript).
Check it out… it’s worth a look!
There’s also a good textual history of programming languages in Wikipedia, not quite as visual, or as complete, but also interesting.
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