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My favorites of this evergreen article: 1990 - A committee formed by Simon Peyton-Jones, Paul Hudak, Philip Wadler, Ashton Kutcher, and People for the Ethical

My favorites of this evergreen article: 1990 - A committee formed by Simon Peyton-Jones, Paul Hudak, Philip Wadler, Ashton Kutcher, and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals creates Haskell, a pure, non-strict, functional language. 1995 - Brendan Eich reads up on every mistake ever made in designing a programming language, invents a few more, and creates LiveScript. Later, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of Java the language is renamed JavaScript. Later still, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of skin diseases the language is renamed ECMAScript. This article should be updated to include TypeScript, Rust, Zig, Nim etc.

andrepd 3y ago
> 1991 - Dutch programmer Guido van Rossum travels to Argentina for a mysterious operation. He returns with a large cranial scar, invents Python, is declared Dictator for Life by legions of followers, and announces to the world that "There Is Only One Way to Do It." Poland becomes nervous. Lmaoo
- adrian_b 3y ago
  Besides the main text, there are many comments with appropriate corrections, e.g.: "Jacquard's loom wasn't concurrent? It was pretty thoroughly multithreaded, I'd have thought!"
rerdavies 3y ago
2015 - Graydon Hoare invents the Rust programming language, which breaks everything by fixing a problem that nobody actually has.
- dlivingston 3y ago
  2015 - A group of sentient extraterrestrial cephalopods, known as "Rustaciens", instruct Graydon Hoare to transcribe the Rust Book onto three golden tablets. Followers of the new movement demand that "everything be re-written in Rust!" Nothing ever is.
  - grogenaut 3y ago
    Many projects are started, but only to accelerate the compilation of ecmascript. None succeed.
civilitty 3y ago
> Ashton Kutcher At age 12?
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lambdasquirrel 3y ago
2012: Steve Ballmer invents Typescript after losing a chair-throwing contest with one of his VPs. The language fails to convince any bored grandmas to switch back to Windows from Linux, and a bunch of them write the first version of VSCode with just 640k of assembly to flip him the birdie for getting rid of Clippy.

andrepd 3y ago

> 1991 - Dutch programmer Guido van Rossum travels to Argentina for a mysterious operation. He returns with a large cranial scar, invents Python, is declared Dictator for Life by legions of followers, and announces to the world that "There Is Only One Way to Do It." Poland becomes nervous. Lmaoo

adrian_b 3y ago
Besides the main text, there are many comments with appropriate corrections, e.g.: "Jacquard's loom wasn't concurrent? It was pretty thoroughly multithreaded, I'd have thought!"

rerdavies 3y ago

2015 - Graydon Hoare invents the Rust programming language, which breaks everything by fixing a problem that nobody actually has.

dlivingston 3y ago
2015 - A group of sentient extraterrestrial cephalopods, known as "Rustaciens", instruct Graydon Hoare to transcribe the Rust Book onto three golden tablets. Followers of the new movement demand that "everything be re-written in Rust!" Nothing ever is.
- grogenaut 3y ago
  Many projects are started, but only to accelerate the compilation of ecmascript. None succeed.

civilitty 3y ago

> Ashton Kutcher At age 12?

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lambdasquirrel 3y ago

2012: Steve Ballmer invents Typescript after losing a chair-throwing contest with one of his VPs. The language fails to convince any bored grandmas to switch back to Windows from Linux, and a bunch of them write the first version of VSCode with just 640k of assembly to flip him the birdie for getting rid of Clippy.