A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages

[ggreig]

If you’ve ever wondered what PHP stood for, wonder no more. Read “A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages” to discover the origins of  Programmable Hyperlinked Pasta among other well known historical programming languages. Kudos to the commenter who points out that Jacquard’s looms were in fact multi-threaded.

Comments

[sharikkamur.livejournal.com]

Excellent! I agree though - lambda calculus is NOT sufficiently C-like.

I also need a better 'computing' icon...

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

I don't even know very much about programming languages, but I was still chuckling. Very good indeed.

[qidane.livejournal.com]

What no ALGOL, I expected no S-ALGOL but I thought ALGOL would make it in.