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A Brief History of Programming Languages?
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?
Where's the equal time for creationism? I don't believe in this "evolution" stuff. I think God created .NET (cough, cough) and then rested on the seventh day.
And it was good.
Then, root created 1.
And that, too, was good.
Then, root created assembly.
And that totally rocked.
Then root created HCF.
And it was very, very bad.
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
I don't see INTERCAL on there anywhere. Of course since it was written to be different from all existing languages, it can be kinda hard to fit in a language tree.
Oh maybe that's why they called it a "Brief History".
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
They misspelled:
The Devil -> Fortran I
I think they forgot Movie++, which of course, runs on MovieOS. It's a great programming language, you navigate classes and objects in full blown 3d floating experiences!
Every video can be programmed to zoom up until you can see microscopic particles WITHOUT any loss of resolution!
My personal favorite is when hackers run virus attacks against giant "Gibson" computers. See, you just don't get a BSOD, you get an awesome 3d graphic eating your desktop!
IGB: More fun than eating oatmeal!
Look harder.
Better not tell Duke Nukem, either.
Assembly Coders - these are extinct group of primitive form of life
before the advent of culture and civilisation, althought without access
to any formal human-recognizable language structure they were amazingly
versatile in their skills to construct reality by pushing and popping strings of
little pebbles from holes dug in the ground. Ancient arcade machines
sometimes found in desolate pubs testify to their once glorious existance.
C - C Programmers are more like highly evolved alien beings from outer space
who spoke purely in binary and pointers. They often take the disguise as
unsightly middle aged man with beard and glasses amongst earthlings.
They do not care for the artifacts of language or culture, they only care
for the semantics. Their job is to construct and engineer the roads,
the transportation, the network lines, the infrasture that our civilazation
have come to depend very much on. They are very hard to communicate with as
intepreting their language requires unusually greater IQ than most of
our earthlings can aspire to.
C++ - C++ Programmers are born again C programmers who realised their
folly of seeing the world in pure binary and pointers. They want to see
reality more concretely thus they talk in objects and classes.
More often than not, C++ Programmers are still attached to their
old ways and their attempts to communicate with others often result
in abstrated hodgepodge just as complicated as the C
language. Most C++ Programmers feel they may have had a
deprived childhood.
Java - Java Programmers are like C++ programmers except they were
brought up in aristrocat families. Their manners in their language
are refined and elegant althought at times may appear slightly
pretentious and artificial. They are very socially closed and
mix with their own kind only, basically they dont like outsiders
playing in their upper-middle class private school sandbox.
Being economically previliged means they have ample access to inheritance
like network libraries, etc. Although their reputation is good amongst
corporate circles, they are rumoured to be impotent when it comes to GUI.
Visual Basic - Visual Basic programmers are perceived to be like your
every day a dime a dozen computer science graduates. They
are naive, confident and sometimes a little brash in their perceived
ability to deal with the real world. Their language developed from high school
jargons and street slang though highly vulgar in the eyes of other programmers,
were often effective (or adequate) in solving a lot of every day
ordinary kitchen and sink problems. Often the case, a job completed
by a Visual Basic programmer, thought cheap and fast leaves little to be desired,
tales of half patched pipes leaking from under kitchen sink are
well known in the industry.
C# - C# Programmers are Java programmers wannabes wanting to achieve the same
social status and previledge that Java programmers have, C# programmers
lacks the authentic social grace and ethics that could help them rise above the
Visual Basic suburbia coarse mentality that tends to predominate them. C# Programmers
also tends to like screen widgets that are glitzy. They are the type of people
that the marketing department love to target in their product focus group.
COBOL - Cobol Programmers are not really people, they were actually mutated
from hole-punch card readers. they have no human affectations
and thus are very capable of churning out millions of incredibly mundane and
humanly degrading pages and pages of printed accounts reconciliation codes.
although they were disbanded by the human rights organisation, Cobol
programmers were actively recruited just before the millineum to solve the Y2k bug
which they were originally responsible for.
Fabled Programmers - the are many species of programmers that claim
to exist but no one have ever met any of these illusive creatures in
Really
;)
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
I suspect that by "their" you mean they're (they are). I know it's difficult, but the English language uses their, they're, *AND* there. They're orthogonal.
their vs. they're
there vs. their
...though I feel you are rather lucky having the last entry fall off the edge of the post and thus reduce significantly the flameage you may get.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
There is no line from SCO unixware to linux
Has anyone noticed that the Egyptian symbol Ankh resembles a 0 and a 1 separated by a line?
COBOL programmers were not responsible for the Y2K bug. Jesus was. We were just the ones to profit most from it.
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Python considers itself? How anthropomorphic.
My other Slashdot ID is much lower.
I guess I'll just print this out as the second page on my resume as a timeline of what languages I know and when I learnt them.
Then prospective interviewers can't point out my current 8 years of C# experience is a lie.
---- The geek shall inherit the Earth.
...debugging myself
How far did you get?
Writers imply. Readers infer.
Maybe so, but SCO own all the copyrights.