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A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (james-iry.blogspot.com)

submitted 2 days ago by troyunrau@lemmy.ca to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] actually@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I’m really unclear about when this was written, but it does not include rust or type safety

[–] dabaldeagul@feddit.nl 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

URL includes /2009/05/ so I imagine May 2009.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 4 hours ago

Or earlier, possibly

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 19 points 2 days ago

Yeah. I'm sure it predates Rust by the simple evidence that it doesn't take any cheap shots at Rust.

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

2009ish