A history of programming languages

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A history of programming languages

June 21, 2013, 14:49

I was just pointed to this, and it's funny enough to be shared I think:

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages

http://james-iry.blogspot.de/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html

1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave "hello, world" into a tapestry. Redditers of the time are not imp...

My personal favorite:

1972 - Dennis Ritchie invents a powerful gun that shoots both forward and backward simultaneously. Not satisfied with the number of deaths and permanent maimings from that invention he invents C and Unix.

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June 21, 2013, 20:36

This is lovely - thank you. One of my many favourites is

1940s - Various "computers" are "programmed" using direct wiring and switches. Engineers do this in order to avoid the tabs vs spaces debate.

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