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A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (james-iry.blogspot.com)
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An absolute classic. One of my favourite parts:

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.

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[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Oh, this is hilarious!

1996 - James Gosling invents Java. Java is a relatively verbose, garbage collected, class based, statically typed, single dispatch, object oriented language with single implementation inheritance and multiple interface inheritance. Sun loudly heralds Java's novelty.

2001 - Anders Hejlsberg invents C#. C# is a relatively verbose, garbage collected, class based, statically typed, single dispatch, object oriented language with single implementation inheritance and multiple interface inheritance. Microsoft loudly heralds C#'s novelty.

[-] yourstruly@dataterm.digital 7 points 2 years ago

Extra fun fact for comment reading friends: This post is the origin of the meme "Monads are just monoids in the category of endofunctors. What's the problem?" Source

[-] rskn@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

This is hilarious. Thanks for this.

[-] elxeno@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago

I'd like to see an update for typescript, go, rust.

[-] yourstruly@dataterm.digital 8 points 2 years ago

2012 - Anders Hejlsberg discovers some mushrooms growing from the base of his bathtub. After consuming them, he has a revelation that C# needs more Javascript. He invents Typescript. Typescript is a relatively verbose, garbage collected, class based, statically typed, single dispatch, object oriented language with single implementation inheritance and multiple interface inheritance. Microsoft loudly heralds Typescript's novelty.

[-] RiikkaTheIcePrincess@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Very amusing :'D Pretty sure Go actually was criticized for not being more like Rust pretty early on... maybe that's an artifact of being around the sorts of nerds who knew about it before it really got outside of Mozilla.

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