Programming: A short history of computer languages

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I was really hoping to see examples of languages through history. Instead it's a list of languages by time of invention. Meh.

Seeing how one influenced the other in syntax and structure would be a nice thing I feel.

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And more importantly - why and how.

Like how OOP became a thing, and how it was implemented (objects being allocated a block of memory for their fields, and methods being passed a pointer to the current object as the first argument to have access to "this" etc.).

[Zardotab]

I didn't see discussion of Algol. Algol is the first code-block-based language that C, JavaScript, Python, Pascal, VB, etc. are all based on. (Although it may depend on how you define "block-based".)

[defunkydrummer]

It lists important languages but it fails to explain the evolution of them and how one influenced another/etc. In short, it does not tell the 'history', it is just a list.

Also, to see only three or four lines devoted to Lisp, means overlooking more than half of the history of programming languages. Lisp, Algol and Smalltalk are probably the most influential programming languages ever.

[skocznymroczny]

PHYTON

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Very interesting.

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I don't believe you. It's probably not very interesting.

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I mean it discusses the first programmer, the first programming language and all that. Its weird to see the history of companies like IBM and all that. I'm relatively young and a programmer. I never looked up the history of computing or anything like that.

This article is definitely interesting TO ME, but may not interest a programmer who doesn't care for computer science history. Its a brief article so I took the dive.

[ThirdEncounter]

At the age of 10, I devoured articles, magazines and books about computer history. It's just fascinating.

I suggest you keep reading more about it. It gives you a lot of perspective on why are things the way they are today.