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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. oh my stars and etc ... by thunderpeel · · Score: 0, Troll

    That "map" is .. uhm well .. great. WTF does it mean to non programmers?

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  2. DUPE! by Kehl · · Score: 0, Troll

    Dupe

  3. What the hell! by teamhasnoi · · Score: 0, Troll
    They left out HTML! I have been programming quantum computers in HTML since the mid 60s!

    Whth an oversight like that, I'm guessing the rest isn't very accurate.

  4. Re:From "The Tao of Programming" by JCOTTON · · Score: 0, Troll

    COmmon Business Oriented Language. At least 50% of all code in the U.S. is in COBOL. Beats any other language.