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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?
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The Cult of Objective-C was founded in a flurry of dynamism intended to bring application programming into the modern age by combining the object-orientedness of Smalltalk with the strange pointer language of C hacks. They can often be found speaking sentences such as "Your small text parsing tool would have been far more elegant if you had used the model-view-controller design pattern" and "there's no sense in reinventing the hydrogen-powered kitchen sink with nanorobotic food-synthesis technology when the kit provides it for you."
Also known for other ostensibly unintelligible lines of code that, read aloud, sound like "NSKitchenSink kitchenSink equals NSKitchenSink kitchenSink" they are fond of the fact that what would be a three-hundred-line error in C++ involving templates of templates of templates becomes a mere warning in Objective-C, or, even worse, a runtime error to be discovered in three weeks' time. They also abhor the excessive parentheses caused by Java's strong compile-time type checking, far preferring three-hundred-character lines involving method names longer than Clinton's average State of the Union address.
Their number having dwindled to a small band of NeXT aficionados and other offshoot cults, the Cult of Objective-C has infiltrated Apple and has been thus growing its ranks through the use of shiny hardware and software lures.
Try printing the whole chart in FireFox... good freakin' luck! Can't get more than one page! IE, on the other hand, prints it perfectly. :)
Yup, IE wins yet another real-world test over FireFox! :D