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The History of Programming Languages

Posted by michael on from the in-the-beginning-was-the-command-line dept.

Dozix007 writes "For 50 years, computer programmers have been writing code. New technologies continue to emerge, develop, and mature at a rapid pace. Now there are more than 2,500 documented programming languages and O'Reilly has produced a poster called History of Programming Languages, which plots over 50 programming languages on a multi-layered, color-coded timeline."

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  1. Re:Great! by Oligonicella · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Bullsh*t. When Bill and Paul were doing that, I was in a career of programming. At that time alone, I knew five or six languages. Utter crap, you know not of what you speak.