March 19, 2005
And Fortran Begat IAL.
To nerds like me, this poster of programming evolution is quite possibly the most fascinating flowchart ever created. It was inspired by this chart, which was designed by Eric Levenez.
And, as if that weren't enough, you can also search a database of nearly 2500 computer languages. 010001100111010101101110!
First link requires Adobe Acrobat.
Hope you enjoy. And I'm very sorry if any of this is a repost. I'm still new here.
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the o'reilly chart looks like it might be cool if i had a huge monitor. but i'm on 12" and 1024x768 and have serious problems reading the pdf. i think the fonts have been bitmapped, making them almost illegible. the levenez chart is much better... basic dates back to 1962? python dates back to 1991? i had no idea about many of these dates. thanks panleth )))
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I remember learning Fortran back in 1968, carefully arranging my stack of punchcards and being proud when I loaded them in and successfully got the computer to add 2 and 2 (or whatever). Good times!
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Wow, I had no idea Prolog was that old. I thought it was a fairly recent development. Cool post, Panleth, and welcome.
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It's a nice poster but not designed to display on a PC monitor so a little hard to see how the languages link together. I remember reading in a book on the history of computer languanges a long time ago about a German scientist in the 1930's whose ideas for a logic language were very similar to what Fortran eventually became.