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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: 3, Funny) by MostCynical on Saturday March 28 2020, @12:21AM (3 children)

    by MostCynical (2589) on Saturday March 28 2020, @12:21AM (#976525) Journal

    hey, cold, with lime or lemon, it is drinkable (yes, so is Fosters [wikipedia.org] and XXXX [wikipedia.org], so YMMV..

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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 28 2020, @02:03AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 28 2020, @02:03AM (#976546)

    Agree is a far better lemonade sub.

  • (Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Monday March 30 2020, @09:40PM (1 child)

    by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us (6553) on Monday March 30 2020, @09:40PM (#977376) Journal

    Fosters is drinkable? Coulda fooled me!

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    • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Tuesday March 31 2020, @12:37AM

      by MostCynical (2589) on Tuesday March 31 2020, @12:37AM (#977437) Journal

      these days, only by the British [theguardian.com] and not really very much in Australia [quora.com]
      Although the stuff the brew in Manchester is very different to the stuff made in Australia.

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