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A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (james-iry.blogspot.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/programming

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Old but classic.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I am old, so this tracks ;)

[–] MajorHavoc 9 points 2 weeks ago

It may not be true but it's accurate.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I’m really unclear about when this was written, but it does not include rust or type safety

[–] MajorHavoc 20 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah. I'm sure it predates Rust by the simple evidence that it doesn't take any cheap shots at Rust.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

2009ish

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

URL includes /2009/05/ so I imagine May 2009.

[–] sukhmel 1 points 1 week ago

Or earlier, possibly

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Ok the javascript paragraph made me laugh.

[–] arendjr 2 points 1 week ago

I would love to see Go, Rust, Swift and Kotlin added to this. Anyone willing to take a shot?