A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of #Programming Languages
http://james-iry.blogspot.fr/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html
“1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave "hello, world" into a tapestry. Redditers of the time are not impressed due to the lack of tail call recursion, concurrency, or proper capitalization.”
“1983 - Bjarne Stroustrup bolts everything he's ever heard of onto C to create C++.”
@val That's correct. Any computer history that omits Alan Turing is incomplete. I guess it would be hard to include a tragic genius in such a tongue in cheek work.
@DistroJunkie It does not omit Turing: “1936 - Alan Turing invents every programming language that will ever be but is shanghaied by British Intelligence to be 007 before he can patent them.”
@val Sorry. I guess I was still groggy when I read it this morning. Pls forgive me.
@DistroJunkie I have done worse, don't worry
@val thx for the grace
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