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There was a huge chart of the history of programming languages at my university. It showed which ones influenced others, and I'd look at it often. Oddly enough

by barnaby 16y ago

There was a huge chart of the history of programming languages at my university. It showed which ones influenced others, and I'd look at it often. Oddly enough I didn't pay much attention to Python at the time focusing on all the lines coming into and out of Java. I've since discovered Python and really wish I could see that chart again. While this is very different it gave me a piece of that magic again. Thank you for posting this. :-)

mahmud 16y ago
Python is fairly conservative; as far as languages go, probably not the most interesting, which is exactly its charm. I would group Python with Pike and Icon, as 2-week programming languages. It takes about 2-weeks of practice to start writing useful, sophisticated programs in them. Icon is the more interesting one of the three, it's a modern SNOBOL dialect with generators.
senki 16y ago
I found two similar posters, maybe you'll find interesting: http://www.digibarn.com/collections/posters/tongues/ComputerLanguagesChart.png http://www.digibarn.com/collections/posters/tongues/Computer... http://log-rotation.jp/pyblosxom/images/unix/programming_language_diagram.png http://log-rotation.jp/pyblosxom/images/unix/programming_lan...
- gtani 16y ago
  http://www.levenez.com/lang/ http://www.levenez.com/lang/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages_by_category http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages_b... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_paradigm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_paradigm http://erlangish.blogspot.com/2007/05/shape-of-your-mind.html http://erlangish.blogspot.com/2007/05/shape-of-your-mind.htm... http://www.sigplan.org/pl-workshop/contributions/7.pdf http://www.sigplan.org/pl-workshop/contributions/7.pdf http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3465 http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3465 http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/people/PVR/paradigmsDIAGRAMeng101.pdf http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/people/PVR/paradigmsDIAGRAMeng101....

by barnaby 16y ago

mahmud 16y ago

Python is fairly conservative; as far as languages go, probably not the most interesting, which is exactly its charm. I would group Python with Pike and Icon, as 2-week programming languages. It takes about 2-weeks of practice to start writing useful, sophisticated programs in them. Icon is the more interesting one of the three, it's a modern SNOBOL dialect with generators.

senki 16y ago

I found two similar posters, maybe you'll find interesting: http://www.digibarn.com/collections/posters/tongues/ComputerLanguagesChart.png http://www.digibarn.com/collections/posters/tongues/Computer... http://log-rotation.jp/pyblosxom/images/unix/programming_language_diagram.png http://log-rotation.jp/pyblosxom/images/unix/programming_lan...

gtani 16y ago
http://www.levenez.com/lang/ http://www.levenez.com/lang/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages_by_category http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages_b... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_paradigm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_paradigm http://erlangish.blogspot.com/2007/05/shape-of-your-mind.html http://erlangish.blogspot.com/2007/05/shape-of-your-mind.htm... http://www.sigplan.org/pl-workshop/contributions/7.pdf http://www.sigplan.org/pl-workshop/contributions/7.pdf http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3465 http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3465 http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/people/PVR/paradigmsDIAGRAMeng101.pdf http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/people/PVR/paradigmsDIAGRAMeng101....