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A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (james-iry.blogspot.com)

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[–] solrize 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Old but classic.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I am old, so this tracks ;)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

It may not be true but it's accurate.

[–] actually 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Or earlier, possibly

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

2009ish

[–] catalyst 5 points 1 month ago

Ok the javascript paragraph made me laugh.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

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