Stray Hawkeye » programming http://www.strayhawkeye.com Two parts show and tell, one part soapbox. Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:17:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages http://www.strayhawkeye.com/2010/07/12/a-brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong-history-of-programming-languages/ http://www.strayhawkeye.com/2010/07/12/a-brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong-history-of-programming-languages/#comments Tue, 13 Jul 2010 02:13:09 +0000 Kearn http://www.strayhawkeye.com/?p=2153 A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages is the funniest thing I’ve read in months.  I actually fell out of my chair laughing.  That said, I’m pretty sure you have to be a huge, enormous, mega-nerd computer geek with a decent understanding of the history of programming languages to really get much of any of the humor of it.  But if you are a huge, enormous, mega-nerd computer geek with a decent understanding of the history of programming languages, it doesn’t get much better than this.  Snip:

1964 – John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz create BASIC, an unstructured programming language for non-computer scientists.

1965 – Kemeny and Kurtz go to 1964.

Via Boing Boing.

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