Description: I got interested in the lineage of programming languages once and made a greatly abbreviated family tree. Most of our modern languages ultimately descend from Fortran or FLOW-MATIC (and their typically machine-specific languages). I've obviously left out many of the dialects (like CoffeeScript) and standards-update versions (like C++17).
Description: I got interested in the lineage of programming languages once and made a greatly abbreviated family tree. Most of our modern languages ultimately descend from Fortran or FLOW-MATIC (and their typically machine-specific languages). I've obviously left out many of the dialects (like CoffeeScript) and standards-update versions (like C++17).
Description: Where are we now? "Trough of Disillusionment" or "Peak of Inflated Expectations"? Fun fact: some people call this a "hype cycle". Those people are idiots because this is clearly not a cycle. It's more like a superposition of logistic functions and slightly underdamped harmonic motion.
Description: Where are we now? "Trough of Disillusionment" or "Peak of Inflated Expectations"? Fun fact: some people call this a "hype cycle". Those people are idiots because this is clearly not a cycle. It's more like a superposition of logistic functions and slightly underdamped harmonic motion.