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Uh, that's a timeline. How could the author use the words 'visual history' in the title without at all attempting to display the lineage of languages? I expec
by daveloyall 11y ago
Uh, that's a timeline.
How could the author use the words 'visual history' in the title without at all attempting to display the lineage of languages?
I expected a picture of a tree, or web--not a line.
- theophrastus 11y agoI just wanted some sense of the continuing extent of each language indicated, (that is, the labels should have variable widths). Admittedly it's difficult, and controversial, to conclude "when Pascal ceased to be important" but I'd still find it informative, even if only subjective.
- kleer001 11y agoMaybe a look at published new books and reprints on the subject of that language? It would certainly be a different texture than some kind of impossible study of how important a language is, but better than a straight timeline.
- mathattack 11y agoI was expecting a history of visual programming languages - which would be much smaller. :-)
- dang 11y agoOk, we s/history/timeline/'d the title.