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Looks like it goes back to at least November, 2011: https://web.archive.org/web/20111103024132/http://colinm.org/language_checklist.html https://web.archive.or

• shadowgovt 7y ago
  It's older than that. I won't say how I know, but bits and pieces of this were tumbling around in the undergrad hivemind of a certain Pittsburgh university for awhile before 2011. ;)
  • grzm 7y ago
    > "I won't say how I know" Why so mysterious? ;) Do you have a pointer to anything that predates the link I provide? From what I gather, that's the website of one of the listed authors. If you have an earlier link to something that looks like an earlier draft, that would be nice to have for us armchair internet historians.
  • nostrademons 7y ago
    I remember seeing it back when I was interested in programming language design. I lost interest around 2010 (after concluding largely what the checklist was getting at, that there's no point developing a new programming language), so that would put it in the 2005-2010 period. Ironically, most of the languages I've used in the last 5 years (Swift, Rust, Kotlin) post-date that period, so I was wrong in my conclusion.
    • terminaljunkid 7y ago
      So your username?