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Re: A visual timeline of programming languages

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Someone's been playing with Wikidata/Wikipedia! As others have noted, this is a little incomplete (no Lisp) and seems to have some odd entries - the last item seems to be a voice-controlled business software package, not a language.

In this timeline, Common Lisp first appears when it was standardized. It should probably also mention its predecessor MACLISP.

Re: A visual timeline of programming languages

#24

Uh, that's a timeline. How could the author use the words 'visual history' in the title without at all attempting to display the lineage of languages? I expected a picture of a tree, or web--not a line.

I was expecting a history of visual programming languages - which would be much smaller. :-)

Re: A visual timeline of programming languages

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

They definitely missed Lisp.

And lambda calculus. And whatever Babbage's machine was programmed in.

It wasn't programmed because it was never built (in his time anyway). I am assuming you are talking about the Analytical Engine, rather than the Difference Engine, since the latter is not a Turing machine.

The method of programming was to be via punched cards, whose contents was roughly analogous to machine code.

Re: A visual timeline of programming languages

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Uh, that's a timeline. How could the author use the words 'visual history' in the title without at all attempting to display the lineage of languages? I expected a picture of a tree, or web--not a line.

I was expecting a history of visual programming languages - which would be much smaller. :-)

That's something to celebrate!
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