A Brief Totally Accurate History Of Programming Languages

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   A Brief Totally Accurate History Of Programming Languages
   https://medium.com/commitlog/a-brief-totally-accurate-history-of-programming-languages-d2e2b09553f8

      One Hundred Percent Inspired by Facts
      Casper Beyer
      May 23, 2019

      1800
      Joseph Marie Jacquard teaches a loom to read punch cards, creating the first heavily multi-threaded processing unit. His invention was fiercely opposed by silk-weavers who were worried about robots taking their jobs.

      1842
      Ada Lovelace gets bored of being noble and scribbles in a notebook what will later be known as the first published computer program, only slightly inconvenienced by the fact that there were no computers around at the time.

      1936
      Alan Turing invents everything, the Queen is keen on him but Turing fancies the lads over her, as a result of this so she has him castrated.
      The Queen later got over it, unfortunately he had already been dead for centuries (internet-time) at that time.

      1936
      Alonzo Church also invents everything with Turing, but being across the pond he was not fancied nor castrated by the Queen.

      1957
      John Backus creates FORTRAN which is the first language that real programmers use.

      1959
      Grace Hopper gets tired of sparring with Chuck Norris and invents the first enterprise ready business oriented programming language. Because enterprise ready software needs to have long and boring names she decides to call it the “common business-oriented language” or COBOL for short.

      1964
      John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz decide programming is too hard and they need to go back to basics so they drop line numbers, they call their programming language BASIC.

      1970
      Niklaus Wirth makes Pascal become a thing along with a bunch of other languages, this guy really liked making languages.
      He also invents Wirth’s law which makes Moore’s law obsolete because software developers will write so bloated software that even mainframes cannot keep up. This will later be proven to be true with the invention of Electron.js and the abstractions built on top of it.

      1972
      Dennis Ritchie got bored during work hours at Bell Labs so he decided to make C which had curly braces so it ended up being a huge success. Afterwards he added segmentation faults and other developer friendly features to aid productivity.
      Still having a couple of hours remaining he and his buddies at Bell Labs decided to make an example program demonstrating C, they make a operating system called Unix.

      1980
      Alan Kay invents object oriented programming and calls it Smalltalk, in Smalltalk everything is an object, even an object is an object. No one really has time for his small talk.

      1987
      Larry Wall has a religious experience, becomes a preacher and makes Perl the doctrine. Everyone was onboard with up until the new testament.

      1983
      Jean Ichbiah notices that Ada Lovelace programs never actually ran and decided to create a language with her name. The language rings true to the name and remains obscure.

      1986
      Brac Box and Tol Move decide to make an unreadable version of C based on Smalltalk which they call Objective-C. To this day no one is able to understand the syntax.

      1983
      Bjarne Stroustrup takes a quick trip in his DeLorean back to the futurem while there he notices that C is not taking enough time to compile. Meaning developers don’t have enough time to mess around while claiming the code is compiling. In response to this he adds every feature he can think of to the language and names it C++.
      Programmers everywhere adopt it so they have genuine excuses to watch cat videos and read xkcd while working.

      1991
      Guido van Rossum writes a cooking book about eggs and spam.

      1993
      Roberto Ierusalimschy and friends decide they need a scripting language local to Brazil, during localization an error was made that made indices start counting from 1 instead of 0, they named it Lua.

      1994
      Rasmus Lerdorf makes a template engine for his personal homepage CGI scripts, he releases his dotfiles on the web.
      The world decides to use these dotfiles for everything and in a frenzy Rasmus throws some extra database bindings in there for the heck of it and calls it PHP.

      1995
      Yukihiro Matsumoto is not very happy, he notices other programmers are not happy. He creates Ruby to make programmers happy. After creating Ruby “Matz” is happy, the Ruby community is happy, everyone is happy.
      Sidenote: Thank you Matt, I was a Rubyist for a couple of years and I was indeed very happy.

      1995
      Brendan Eich takes the weekend off to design a language that will be used to power every single web browser in the world and eventually also Skynet. He originally went to Netscape and said it was called LiveScript but Java became popular during the code review so they decided they better use curly braces and rename it to JavaScript.
      Java turned out to be a trademark mess that would get them in trouble so JavaScript gets renamed to ECMAScript during standardisation and everyone still calls it JavaScript.

      1996
      James Gosling invents Java, the first truly overly verbose object oriented programming language where design patterns rule supreme over pragmatism.
      Its super effective, the manager provider container provider service manager singleton manager provider pattern is born.

      2001
      Anders Hejlsberg re-invents Java and calls it C# because programming in C feels cooler than Java. Everyone loves this new version of Java for totally not being like Java.

      2005
      David Hanselmeyer Hansen creates a web framework for Ruby called Ruby on Rails, people no longer remember that the two are separate things. People are becoming less happy.

      2006
      John Resig writes a helper library for JavaScript. Somehow everyone thinks it’s a language on its own and make careers of copy and pasting jQuery codes from the internets.

      2009
      Ken Thompson and Rob Pike decide to make a language like C, but with les sspeed and more safety equipment and making it more marketable with Gophers as mascots.
      They call it Go, make it open source and fund it by selling Gopher branded kneepads and hardhats separately.

      2010
      Graydon Hoare also wants to make a language like C, he calls it Rust. Everyone demands that every single piece of software be rewritten in Rust immediately. Graydon wants shinier things and starts working on Swift for Apple.

      2012
      Anders Hjelsberg wants to write C# in web browsers, he designs TypeScript which is JavaScript but with more Java in it.

      2013
      Jeremy Ashkenas wants to be happy like Ruby developers so he creates CoffeeScript which compiles to be JavaScript but looks more like Ruby. Jeremy never became truly happy like Matz and Ruby developers.

      2014
      Chris Lattner makes Swift with the primary design goal of not being Objective-C, in the end it looks like Java.


      James Iry, whom I can only assume is a fellow computer science historian made some similar observations back in 2009.
      http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html?m=1