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Troy@lemmy.ca to Programming@programming.dev · 5 months ago

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

james-iry.blogspot.com

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

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Troy@lemmy.ca to Programming@programming.dev · 5 months ago
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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...
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  • solrize@lemmy.world
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    Old but classic.

    • Troy@lemmy.caOP
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      I am old, so this tracks ;)

  • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
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    It may not be true but it’s accurate.

  • catalyst@lemmy.world
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    Ok the javascript paragraph made me laugh.

  • actually@lemmy.world
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    I’m really unclear about when this was written, but it does not include rust or type safety

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

    • Troy@lemmy.caOP
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      2009ish

    • Da Bald Eagul@feddit.nl
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      URL includes /2009/05/ so I imagine May 2009.

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        Or earlier, possibly

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

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