Computer Languages Timeline [pdf] (2022)

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55 points·archargelod··15 comments

I would love to have something like this on my wall that has seen a designer’s touch. The information tells a story, but it could certainly be art.

The end of the graph has a lot of straight lines. I’m not sure this is accurate as much as it’s just missing linkages. Or perhaps they just haven’t become sufficiently clear through the lens of history.

If the OP wanted a larger dataset, here's a list of 5,016: https://pldb.io/lists/explorer.html

Also available as csv/tsv/json: https://pldb.io/pldb.csv

Source: https://github.com/breck7/pldb

I also highly recommend the 99 bottles of beer gallery, which has the same program written in many different languages including some very old ones:

https://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/

and Rosetta Code.

Wow, brings back memories, I even have a few of my own in there somewhere.

ha ha, cool.

some years back, I browsed the site a good amount, and implemented solutions to some of the problems in Python.

https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Cixl

Because it was posted to HN in 2008, I think it is older than 2022.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=130823

I've put 2022 as date, because it's the last time the pdf was updated.

levenez unix history page / chart is also interesting.

Missing Golang, Rust

Why PDF? Just why?

Because PDF is a decent format for archiving paginated output formats, and a clear intention of this project is to let people print out the entire timeline and stick it up on the wall somewhere?

That must be 0.00001% of all people who want a computer language timeline.

Go build the timeline you want. As the rather short page this story links to makes clear, this one is meant to be scaled and printed for hanging on walls.

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