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Illustration: The History of High-Level Programming Languages

oreilly.com — For 50 years, computer programmers have been writing code. New technologies continue to emerge, develop, and mature at a rapid pace. Now there are more than 2,500 documented programming languages! O'Reilly has produced a poster called History of Programming Languages (PDF: 701K), which plots over 50 programming languages on a multi-layered, color-c

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  • jsd8cc, on 11/07/2007, -0/+37The original, which *is* updated...
    http://www.levenez.com/lang/
  • Nothlit, on 11/07/2007, -2/+35It's actually lolcode...

    HAI
    CAN HAS STDIO?
    I HAS A VAR
    IM IN YR LOOP
    UP VAR!!1
    VISIBLE VAR
    IZ VAR BIGGER THAN 10? KTHX
    IM OUTTA YR LOOP
    KTHXBYE
  • koretico, on 11/08/2007, -2/+31dudes, it stops in 2004...
    php5 isn't even mentioned. It's definitely no news but it IS old.
  • MikeonTV, on 11/07/2007, -1/+22hello world: English.
  • bradym80, on 11/07/2007, -5/+20where's LOL cats?
  • doctechnical, on 11/06/2007, -3/+17Yes, that's why it's called "history".

    HTH. HAND.
  • TheInfamousOne, on 11/06/2007, -0/+9easy solution == don't write ***** code
  • loconet, on 11/06/2007, -0/+9000100 IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
    000200 PROGRAM-ID. HELLO.
    000300 ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
    000400 DATA DIVISION.
    000500 PROCEDURE DIVISION.
    000600
    000700 PROGRAM-BEGIN.
    000800 DISPLAY "I am".
    000900
    001000 PROGRAM-DONE.
    001100 STOP RUN.
  • trollick, on 11/07/2007, -0/+9A good FORTRAN programmer can write FORTRAN code in any language
  • Urusai, on 11/07/2007, -0/+8So young, so naive...
  • kensavage, on 11/06/2007, -2/+9WOOHOO Fortran 77 and Cobol.

    Anyone old enough here that learned those?

    age 35
  • deflord, on 11/06/2007, -0/+7if (aJew != coder && digg.Programming.Contains(aJew)) aJew.comments = null;
  • bruenig, on 11/06/2007, -1/+8My digg handle is bruenig.
  • Assezdefromage, on 11/07/2007, -0/+6I think the use of the word "history" implies that it is in the past. So even if it's three years old then it's still interesting.
  • doctechnical, on 11/07/2007, -2/+8That's a programming language?

    IF !(I haz) thn
    WANT!()
    overwise
    NOTWANT!()
    k?thx.
  • pantuky, on 11/07/2007, -3/+9I swear I saw this very chart back in 2004.
  • tpink, on 11/07/2007, -0/+5"The stupidest thing about that language was that you couldn't type past 72 columns or something."

    You can use a continuation character and put it on the next line (or punched card). The limitation is due to the inherent 80 character width of punch cards, not the language.
  • Azimuth1, on 11/06/2007, -2/+7You're also a douchebag,
  • spectre_25gt, on 11/06/2007, -1/+5If you enjoy banging your head against a wall.
  • rhavenn, on 11/06/2007, -0/+4Let me guess. You're a BA? Oh knows...I have to think.
  • Surfrock66, on 11/06/2007, -0/+4Mmmm, lisp. Loved my "programming languages through the years" class, with the "*****" extra credit project.
  • Otto, on 11/06/2007, -0/+4http://lolcode.com/
  • Gogogo111, on 11/06/2007, -0/+4An illustration of The History of High-Level Programming Languages.
  • natenovs, on 11/06/2007, -0/+4yeh, i think its use is still increasing.
  • doctechnical, on 11/06/2007, -0/+4Owning and openly displaying this poster is truly the zenith of geekdom.
  • Kikkoman, on 11/06/2007, -0/+4is it me.. or did they made .net and c# seem so outdated..
  • Error601, on 11/07/2007, -1/+5Not the format I was expecting. I would be more interested to see it as a syntax evolution.
  • muncle, on 11/06/2007, -0/+4Quick, a bridge somewhere is missing a troll!
  • Veritate, on 11/07/2007, -0/+4I think it's just meant to illustrate progress in programming languages.
  • merreborn, on 11/06/2007, -0/+3...The chart stops at 2004.

    I think that's pretty good evidence that it's at least 3 years old.
  • surfing, on 11/06/2007, -0/+3I think he just wanted to brag.
  • asuraci, on 11/06/2007, -0/+3Why did you assume that was an insult?
  • hockey, on 11/06/2007, -0/+3I did a program in Cobol back in college. That one program was enough to make me decide never to touch that language again.
  • tempusrob, on 11/07/2007, -0/+3Now that's neat. The graph goes nuts from the late 70's to the early 90's!
  • thebellmaster1x, on 11/07/2007, -0/+3MY e-penis is NINE inches.
  • dominoman44, on 11/08/2007, -0/+3Old news or new news..if its new to you then its new news
  • phithe, on 11/08/2007, -1/+4What's sad is that you feel the need to brag about your e-penis in this thread.
  • MtheoryX, on 11/07/2007, -0/+2Good code == beautiful.
  • plizard, on 11/05/2007, -0/+2oh i need a cafepress account. that is so a coffee cup
  • InferiorWang, on 11/06/2007, -0/+2beat me to it.
  • MtheoryX, on 11/06/2007, -0/+2Why must those two be mutually exclusive?
  • InferiorWang, on 11/06/2007, -0/+2oh god, now I'm gonna be the lolcode nazi...

    it is kthxbai
  • Rojahon, on 11/06/2007, -0/+2PHP 5 is mentioned at the bottom with all the pictures of the O'Reilly books. "Learning PHP 5" is the last one. For some reason they left it out of the diagram.
  • bruenig, on 11/06/2007, -0/+2You man the endpoint being set 3 years in the past makes you think this is an old poster. You are very keen. I wish I could use what you program, it is probably of the highest quality.
  • zammit, on 11/06/2007, -0/+2number every line =S blaaahh
  • dlsspy, on 11/07/2007, -0/+2Erlang (1987) isn't up there yet.

    *holds breath*
  • zammit, on 11/06/2007, -0/+2html is not high-level
  • ryno35, on 11/08/2007, -0/+2What about the xbase languages. Pretty big oversight considering all the business apps out there written in an xbase variant.

    Foxpro been berry berry good to me.
  • inactive, on 08/11/2008, -0/+1C has truly stood the test of time
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