Nice one. I really liked this one though: 1958 - John McCarthy and Paul Graham invent LISP. Due to high costs caused by a post-war depletion of the strategic p

Nice one. I really liked this one though: 1958 - John McCarthy and Paul Graham invent LISP. Due to high costs caused by a post-war depletion of the strategic parentheses reserve LISP never becomes popular[1]. In spite of its lack of popularity, LISP (now "Lisp" or sometimes "Arc") remains an influential language in "key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension"[2]. [1] Fortunately for computer science the supply of curly braces and angle brackets remains high. [2] Catch as catch can - Verity Stob: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/11/exception_handling/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/11/exception_handling/