History of Programming
2009-05-08 15:11:21.007775+00 by Dan Lyke 1 comments
A bunch of good giggles: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (Hat tip, and hat tip).
2009-05-08 15:11:21.007775+00 by Dan Lyke 1 comments
A bunch of good giggles: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (Hat tip, and hat tip).
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#Comment Re: made: 2009-05-08 18:14:32.629062+00 by: meuon [edit history]
Best excerpt:
1987 - Larry Wall falls asleep and hits Larry Wall's forehead on the keyboard. Upon waking Larry Wall decides that the string of characters on Larry Wall's monitor isn't random but an example program in a programming language that God wants His prophet, Larry Wall, to design. Perl is born
Hilarious.
But the JavaScript definition possibly TOO accurate, as is the one for Java.