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Re: A visual timeline of programming languages

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Post by doodpants » Mon, Jul 20, 2015, 6:38 PM UTC

shampine wrote: post #17

caddala wrote: post #16

Didnt find Java in there. Big miss.

It's there, 1995.

I'm not seeing it either. For 1995, all I see are Ruby, Javascript, PHP, and ColdFusion.

Re: A visual timeline of programming languages

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Post by innguest » Mon, Jul 20, 2015, 6:58 PM UTC

mathattack wrote: post #24

daveloyall wrote: post #2

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. :-)

http://blog.interfacevision.com/design/design-visual-progarm...

Re: A visual timeline of programming languages

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Post by ramgorur » Mon, Jul 20, 2015, 7:18 PM UTC

Is beanshell actually a language ?

Re: A visual timeline of programming languages

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Post by shampine » Mon, Jul 20, 2015, 8:06 PM UTC

hybridtupel wrote: post #29

shampine wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's there, 1995.

Didn't find it either. JavaScript is not Java... edit: Well it seems that this is a browser issue. In chrome I find ColdFusion, in Firefox it's Java instead.

In Chrome I see Java but not Coldfusion. Weird. http://i.imgur.com/RjF1pOP.png

Re: A visual timeline of programming languages

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Post by kwhitefoot » Mon, Jul 20, 2015, 10:04 PM UTC

kylepdavis wrote: post #21

Thanks. Gives a nice overview of when things came about. A few more that you might consider: CoffeeScript, TypeScript, BrightScript, Nim, Vala, XSL, awk, sed Also, there is a nice list on Wikipedia for more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages_...

Not really. It has Scheme before Common Lisp which is fine but where is McCarthy's Lisp which was an ancestor of both of them? And Algol is not one language but several: Algol-60, Algol-68, Algol-W, ... And where is Turbo Pascal? There is so much mainstream stuff missing that it's hard to see any point in it; except perhaps an exercise in interactive grapics in which case the content is a kind of lorem ipsum.

Re: A visual timeline of programming languages

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Post by pmcjones » Tue, Jul 21, 2015, 4:04 AM UTC

IvarTJ wrote: post #23

thomasfoster96 wrote: post #18

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.

For much more on Lisp of all varieties (including Common Lisp), see http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/ .

Re: A visual timeline of programming languages

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Post by Gurkenmaster » Tue, Jul 21, 2015, 6:51 AM UTC

hybridtupel wrote: post #29

shampine wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's there, 1995.

Didn't find it either. JavaScript is not Java... edit: Well it seems that this is a browser issue. In chrome I find ColdFusion, in Firefox it's Java instead.

The bars are overlapping each other. You have to use the next button to see all of them.