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Well this is a Birthday year for many languages. 1995 must be some super anomaly year Ruby, Java, Javascript, PHP, Delphi and Racket all were invented in the sa
by pankajdoharey 6y ago
Well this is a Birthday year for many languages. 1995 must be some super anomaly year Ruby, Java, Javascript, PHP, Delphi and Racket all were invented in the same year.
- skrishnamurthi 6y agoI don't think it's a coincidence that the mid-90s was a hot time for language design: the CGI-bin protocol of the Web suddenly made it possible to write code in any language you wanted and distribute the results, even with a loosely graphical interface, painlessly to clients (in the sense they didn't need to install anything). I call it the "Cambrian explosion of languages". Though Racket was not created for that purpose, it's unsurprising that many others from that era were linked to the Web.
- pankajdoharey 6y agoPerhaps you are right, I was just just 11 when these languages were invented so I really lack any context.