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A Brief History of Programming Languages?

Posted by Cliff on from the genesis-of-the-computer-dialect dept.

Aviancer asks: "French computer historian Éric Lévénez has compiled a family tree of programming languages that I found quite interesting. This prompted me to wonder if there was any controversy on the issue of language lineage and my searches found another page on the same topic. I thought I'd pull an 'ask the audience' to see if there were any corrections on either (both?) pages to be made." What other computing language origins are you aware of that may not be mentioned in either page?

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  1. Re:ho80 by FLAGGR · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The gaotse man was a programmer? Wow. Wouldn't want to touch his keyboard.

  2. Re:Algol 68 influence on C by drgnvale · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Direct influence is Unlikely, since C predates Algol68.

    Erm, no it doesn't. Algol 68 was late 60's, C was early 70's. Look at the chart, idiot.