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

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[-] catalyst@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Ok the javascript paragraph made me laugh.

[-] solrize@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Old but classic.

[-] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

I am old, so this tracks ;)

[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 8 points 1 day ago

It may not be true but it's accurate.

[-] actually@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

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

[-] dabaldeagul@feddit.nl 3 points 6 hours ago

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

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 2 minutes ago

Or earlier, possibly

[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 18 points 1 day ago

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

[-] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

2009ish

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