Sunday, May 09, 2010

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

If you find this funny:

"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."

Then go read the whole (hilarious) post, A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages

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