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Programming Language Timeline
Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 6:47 am
by Chris Corbyn
http://www.levenez.com/lang/history.html
Just caught my boss looking at this at work. Wow!
I guess a few of you have already seen this but it's fascinating to see where everything has evolved from, with most languages tracing right back to fortran

Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 7:39 am
by thiscatis
Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 7:49 am
by panic!
pretty cool!
it's a shame it isn't text so you can't ctrl-F and find a language, otherwise..nice find

Re: Programming Language Timeline
Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 9:14 am
by RobertGonzalez
d11wtq wrote:http://www.levenez.com/lang/history.html
Just caught my boss looking at this at work. Wow!
I guess a few of you have already seen this but it's fascinating to see where everything has evolved from, with most languages tracing right back to fortran

If that diagram was a race, PHP would be a close 2nd to C#.
Go PHP! Come on Baby, you can do it.

Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 6:02 pm
by kaoskorruption
Go PHP! Come on Baby, you can do it.
Agreed! Didn't realize how old it was either. It's still kicking!
Geez fortran is old. 50 years. Haha I didn't even know computers were that old! (I don't know my history

) And that amazing part is the it's still in use!
Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 12:18 pm
by kbrown3074
ew COBOL..boy that is just a fun language
