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A visual timeline of programming languages

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Re: A visual timeline of programming languages

#11
A timeline just isn't going to capture this.

Look at Garofalo's Genealogy of Pop/Rock poster or Gomley's History of Film poster for examples of timelines that more accurately reflect family influences.

If you establish domains like education, medical, military, business, engineering, gaming, hobbyists, etc., you could show more information on a vertical axis, such as MUMPS being almost exclusively used by hospital systems, or Lua being born from C and finding a niche in game scripting.

And by the end, I had a creepy, squicky feeling. It just felt like a rip of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_programming_langua.... Check the "RecurVoice" thing at the end. It looks like wiki-advertising.

Re: A visual timeline of programming languages

#12

A timeline just isn't going to capture this. Look at Garofalo's Genealogy of Pop/Rock poster or Gomley's History of Film poster for examples of timelines that more accurately reflect family influences. If you establish domains like education, medical, military, business, engineering, gaming, hobbyists, etc., you could show more information on a vertical axis, such as MUMPS being almost exclusively used by hospital sy…

Yup, I also noticed the "RecurVoice" ad at the end.

Re: A visual timeline of programming languages

#19
Really neat.

My nitpick is that I wish the timeline data was a bit more granular — too many languages are put at the same mark due to being released in the same year. This is not a big problem when you go through the timeline sequentially as they still show up chronologically (I presume), but visually, it's less informative at a glance.

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