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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. Oh no... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    not this again. Let's just say that the subject appears to be too complex to be properly presented by single chart. And not a "single" chart either - SCO has their customized version, and others probably have theirs.

  2. Re:I finally found Simula by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ... in early 90'ies

    How do you pronounce that? Ninety-ies?

  3. Totally OT: Is Google pushing more gmail accounts? by quizwedge · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I just logged in and have had six invites for a long time. Now I have 50. Did anyone else notice a steep increase or did I just get lucky this round?

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  4. Doctor Who will be on air and Trek wont be by wolverine1999 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So now in a few months, Doctor Who will be on air (the new series), while Star Trek won't be.

    It used to be the other way round after Doctor Who was cancelled. Trek will come back, and it will be better, I hope.

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