A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages

In case you might be wondering why you don't get huge number of upvotes and comments on this, some of us have seen it before. Here are a some of the previous submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=599164 (+)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1310127

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1327746 (+)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1475826

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3503896 (+)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3507566

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4586462

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5129062

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5377944

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5695816 (+)

I've marked the ones with some discussion/comments.

It's also here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5728844

My bad. Was relying on the URL for duplicate checking.