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It's almost like Turbo Pascal, Delphi, and Object Pascal never existed, yet many applications were written (and are still written, in the case of Object Pascal)

It's almost like Turbo Pascal, Delphi, and Object Pascal never existed, yet many applications were written (and are still written, in the case of Object Pascal) in all of them. It's the same thing with the XBase languages like dBase, Clipper, and FoxPro. I'm not sure if it's just poor research skills with such articles, or just a general ignorance of PC software development history, but these languages and products were an integral part of the PC revolution.

crabasa 8y ago
That was by far the weakest article. My favorite was the Crash Course in Compilers: https://increment.com/programming-languages/crash-course-in-compilers/ https://increment.com/programming-languages/crash-course-in-...
ivanhoe 8y ago
And not just that, but Delphi had tremendous influence on modern IDEs design.
- gameswithgo 8y ago
  Delphi was one of the great programs of all time. It is possible that all tools to create graphical desktop applications since are a step backward.
crabasa 8y ago
This comment got me Googling and I was amazed that I couldn't find a good, canonical list of programming languages. The best I could find was a Wikipedia page, they're sorted by alpha which I find not very useful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages Does anyone know of a better resource?
- figgis 8y ago
  Wikipedia has other lists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages_by_type https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_programming_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_programming_languages
  - crabasa 8y ago
    This is where I think Wikipedia really falls down as a repository of information. It's crazy that if a new programming language is invented, people would have update N Wikipedia pages. If I built a simple DB that had all this info and interfaces (web, API) that folks could use to query or contribute, would anyone find this useful?

crabasa 8y ago

That was by far the weakest article. My favorite was the Crash Course in Compilers: https://increment.com/programming-languages/crash-course-in-compilers/ https://increment.com/programming-languages/crash-course-in-...

ivanhoe 8y ago

And not just that, but Delphi had tremendous influence on modern IDEs design.

gameswithgo 8y ago
Delphi was one of the great programs of all time. It is possible that all tools to create graphical desktop applications since are a step backward.

crabasa 8y ago

This comment got me Googling and I was amazed that I couldn't find a good, canonical list of programming languages. The best I could find was a Wikipedia page, they're sorted by alpha which I find not very useful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages Does anyone know of a better resource?

figgis 8y ago
Wikipedia has other lists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages_by_type https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_programming_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_programming_languages
- crabasa 8y ago
  This is where I think Wikipedia really falls down as a repository of information. It's crazy that if a new programming language is invented, people would have update N Wikipedia pages. If I built a simple DB that had all this info and interfaces (web, API) that folks could use to query or contribute, would anyone find this useful?