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History of Programming Languages

32 points by solipsist 15y ago

solipsist 15y ago
Here's the original source: http://www.levenez.com/lang/lang.pdf http://www.levenez.com/lang/lang.pdf Also... Unix history: http://www.levenez.com/unix/unix.pdf http://www.levenez.com/unix/unix.pdf Windows history: http://www.levenez.com/windows/windows.pdf http://www.levenez.com/windows/windows.pdf
- cas 15y ago
  Thanks. That should really be the link instead of a 5 year old O'Reilly advertisement...
- Sniffnoy 15y ago
  Trying to find the ones that have no in-arrows. I see: FORTRAN, B-0, Lisp, APL, SNOBOL, JOSS, ISWIM, Forth, sh, Prolog, sed, ML, B (not the predecessor of C, some other B, 1981), and Tcl. Did I miss any?
  - ajanuary 15y ago
    Sather, Icon, BASIC
    - Sniffnoy 15y ago
      No, all of those have in-arrows: Sather 0.1 has one from Eiffel 2, Icon has one from SL5, and BASIC has one from FORTRAN II and one from ALGOL 60.
- gtani 15y ago
  DevParadigms: http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/paradigmsDIAGRAMeng101.pdf http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/paradigmsDIAGRAMeng101.pdf
- omgtehlion 15y ago
  And this `original source` looks like more correct and full.
- agumonkey 15y ago
  I could see Factor as a Forth offspring. (born 2003 according to Wikipedia)
mrlase 15y ago
A bit humorous almost that some of our most cutting edge scientific research is still done in Fortran in some fields despite being over 50 years old :P
- cleverjake 15y ago
  A friend of mine at school was doing research in particle physics and I asked him why he was doing his stuff in fortran, and he said that all the physicists learned how to program in college (read 40-50 years ago), and were too busy to learn anything new to teach.
- LeafStorm 15y ago
  Yeah, here at NC State just about all the engineers besides the CSCs and ECEs have to learn FORTRAN as well. Granted, it's FORTRAN 95 as opposed to the 50-year-old variant, but looking at my roommate's homework assignments, the language definitely shows its age.
  - memset 15y ago
    Sure, but your nuke friends doing internships at Progress Energy are liable to see some variant of FORTRAN in their work!
- MaxGabriel 15y ago
  As per a United pilot, the mainframe United Airlines uses for flight scheduling is programmed in Fortran. They don't have a GUI for checking flights, just text commands.
thetecnica 15y ago
awesome !!

32 points by solipsist 15y ago

Here's the original source: http://www.levenez.com/lang/lang.pdf http://www.levenez.com/lang/lang.pdf Also... Unix history: http://www.levenez.com/unix/unix.pdf http://www.levenez.com/unix/unix.pdf Windows history: http://www.levenez.com/windows/windows.pdf http://www.levenez.com/windows/windows.pdf

cas 15y ago
Thanks. That should really be the link instead of a 5 year old O'Reilly advertisement...
Sniffnoy 15y ago
Trying to find the ones that have no in-arrows. I see: FORTRAN, B-0, Lisp, APL, SNOBOL, JOSS, ISWIM, Forth, sh, Prolog, sed, ML, B (not the predecessor of C, some other B, 1981), and Tcl. Did I miss any?
- ajanuary 15y ago
  Sather, Icon, BASIC
  - Sniffnoy 15y ago
    No, all of those have in-arrows: Sather 0.1 has one from Eiffel 2, Icon has one from SL5, and BASIC has one from FORTRAN II and one from ALGOL 60.
gtani 15y ago
DevParadigms: http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/paradigmsDIAGRAMeng101.pdf http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/paradigmsDIAGRAMeng101.pdf
omgtehlion 15y ago
And this `original source` looks like more correct and full.
agumonkey 15y ago
I could see Factor as a Forth offspring. (born 2003 according to Wikipedia)

mrlase 15y ago

A bit humorous almost that some of our most cutting edge scientific research is still done in Fortran in some fields despite being over 50 years old :P

cleverjake 15y ago
A friend of mine at school was doing research in particle physics and I asked him why he was doing his stuff in fortran, and he said that all the physicists learned how to program in college (read 40-50 years ago), and were too busy to learn anything new to teach.
LeafStorm 15y ago
Yeah, here at NC State just about all the engineers besides the CSCs and ECEs have to learn FORTRAN as well. Granted, it's FORTRAN 95 as opposed to the 50-year-old variant, but looking at my roommate's homework assignments, the language definitely shows its age.
- memset 15y ago
  Sure, but your nuke friends doing internships at Progress Energy are liable to see some variant of FORTRAN in their work!
MaxGabriel 15y ago
As per a United pilot, the mainframe United Airlines uses for flight scheduling is programmed in Fortran. They don't have a GUI for checking flights, just text commands.

thetecnica 15y ago

awesome !!