Amusing geekage

[ironphoenix]

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

Comments

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

Major LOL! I think you should have labelled that as NSFW!

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

Maybe NSFL (not safe for liquids)... I'm forwarding it to a bunch of our software folks here!

That was awesome.

[maltesewarrior.livejournal.com]

My favorite tidbit:

"1972 - Dennis Ritchie invents a powerful gun that shoots both forward and backward simultaneously. Not satisfied with the number of deaths and permanent maimings from that invention he invents C and Unix."

Re: That was awesome.

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

Glad you like!

[xiphia.livejournal.com]

Given current circumstances, I confess I'm slightly biased towards "It is a syntax error to write FORTRAN while not wearing a blue tie". :)

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I don't understand why he says this is "mostly wrong".

[beable]

Some of it is correct:

1972 - Dennis Ritchie invents a powerful gun that shoots both forward and backward simultaneously. Not satisfied with the number of deaths and permanent maimings from that invention he invents C and Unix.

1959 - After losing a bet with L. Ron Hubbard, Grace Hopper and several other sadists invent the Capitalization Of Boilerplate Oriented Language (COBOL) . Years later, in a misguided and sexist retaliation against Adm. Hopper's COBOL work, Ruby conferences frequently feature misogynistic material.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

The bit about Perl is also perfectly historically correct.