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also, Danes came up with or were leads in the development of Ruby on Rails, PHP, C#, Turbo pascal, C++, Delphi, Google maps, Google wave, the V8 javascript eng

by mixmax 14y ago

also, Danes came up with or were leads in the development of Ruby on Rails, PHP, C#, Turbo pascal, C++, Delphi, Google maps, Google wave, the V8 javascript engine for Chrome, and the Varnish cache. Pretty good for a country with half the population of New York I'd say.

haasted 14y ago
This is true, but the unfortunate angle on that is that, with the exception of Varnish, none of those things were actually made IN Denmark, if I recall correctly. Update: Seems DHH started RoR while studying at CBS.
- flexd 14y ago
  Varnish was started in Norway as far as I know. Not that it's that relevant to know exactly where it was started. :)
  - jlouis 14y ago
    The initial funding came from Norway, but the code was written partially in Norway and Denmark IIRC. Perhaps mostly Denmark.
  - doppel 14y ago
    The lead developer, Poul Henning-Kamp, is a danish national but was hired by a norweigan newspaper to develop Varnish.
- peteri 14y ago
  Turbo Pascal was definitely Danish (polydata)