Here’s a fascinating timeline of computer languages. The sad thing is, I’ve written software with a lot of these at some point or other. It’s also interesting to see COBOL was once called BO — I’m glad they renamed it.
We found a gem poking around on the corporate network the other day: a PDF of "The History of Programming Languages", a poster by O'Reilly that shows 50 programming languages and their timelines and interrelationships. Chris posted back in March about the progenitor of this chart, Éric Lévénez's…