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posted by Fnord666 on Friday March 27 2020, @06:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the its-not-dead-its-just-resting dept.

10 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages:

The other day I read 20 most significant programming languages in history, a "preposterous table I just made up." He certainly got preposterous right: he lists Go as "most significant" but not ALGOL, Smalltalk, or ML. He also leaves off Pascal because it's "mostly dead". Preposterous! That defeats the whole point of what "significant in history" means.

So let's talk about some "mostly dead" languages and why they matter so much.

Disclaimer: Yeah not all of these are dead and not all of these are forgotten. Like most people have heard of Smalltalk, right? Also there's probably like a billion mistakes in this, because when you're doing a survey of 60 years of computing history you're gonna get some things wrong. Feel free to yell at me if you see anything!

Disclaimer 2: Yeah I know some of these are "first to invent" and others are "first to popularize". History is complicated!

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If there were one perfect language we would all be using it already.
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  • (Score: 2) by looorg on Friday March 27 2020, @07:48PM (1 child)

    by looorg (578) on Friday March 27 2020, @07:48PM (#976430)

    This again. I strongly suspect COBOL will outlive us all.

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by DannyB on Friday March 27 2020, @09:36PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday March 27 2020, @09:36PM (#976471) Journal

    In about the year 9997, when the Y10K problem is right around the corner, and everything must be udpated for five digit years, there will suddenly be a lot of job openings for COBOL.

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    People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.