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The quirky personal homepages of programming language creators

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too many "$BROWSER can't open these pages" pages and one "no https page" page.

If just someone would have come up with a way that allows one to visit these pages by a simple click of a button...

You could just click on them and be there. Imagine how crazy that would be.

It's easy with Firefox: Right-click frame, select This Frame > Open Frame in New Tab.

But I get your point; there should be a one-click link to these pages, especially since some of them don't allow themselves to be opened in an iframe.

Ah, ok, that's why many are blank. I imagined that some of them may no longer be maintained, but then I actually tried one directly from pldb.info, and it worked. Well, typical I guess: vibe coded in 5 minutes and then uploaded without even testing it. Why am I even wasting my time writing a comment about this?

The page from which the data is sourced allows this: http://pldb.info/lists/creators.

...and I can click on a name in this list and get to that page. How could that a-tag not have been implemented?

This page is just a bad[1] reskin of the data on http://pldb.info/lists/creators (which is arranged in the way you and I expect)

1: “A horizontally scrolling list of text items at the top of the page” somehow manages to pick the worse option on every possible binary choice it gets to make.

Bad but presumably also "trendy and modern" as it requires JS and a substantially more powerful computer than just rendering an HTML table. The page you link to can be viewed in basically any browser, which is a good thing but not to those who want to turn the web into a walled garden.

From the ones at the top I've looked at, the creators' pages themselves are also basic HTML; and furthermore, it's also telling that #1, the creator of JavaScript, chooses not to turn his site into a JS-only SPA.

You can though, by clicking the name in top left header of the currently open panel.

How do I make it into the list? :)

Create a programming language.

https://github.com/lone-lang/lone

Sent a PR to breck7/pldb and it got merged in less than two minutes.

No Alan Kay or Dan Ingalls. Surprised

Or Jose Valim

Original list [1] has both.

Shitty vibe-coded half-functioning copy hasn't...

[1] http://pldb.info/lists/creators

The best one I saw, you clicked country flags, and for each flag it showed a picture of him in that country with the homepage translated. But I forget who that was.

Is there actually a good reason for language creators’ web pages being so quirky(/ugly)?

I absolutely love that the CSS one is so f’d up that you can’t see their name.

It’s so perfect that I wonder if it’s intentional.

It's a different type of beauty. The beauty is not the arrangement, it's what was never put into the code because it was never actually required.

Old timers don't use CSS frameworks and made it work for their IBM CRT.

IPFS is a programming language now? Drupal? Jquery? Bun? Obsidian?

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