The Language list.

http://people.ku.edu/~nkinners/LangList/Extras/langlist.htm

It's a list of about 2500 programming languages. It's got all the biggies in it, and lots of others.

I recognize at least one language that I had a hand in developing, although I am not credited by name.

Notable among the ones I looked at:

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Data/Basic, the language of the Pick operating system, and one of Dawn's favorite reference points. Notably, It's listed as a "language for non-professionals" (It's surprising how many of the best languages began exactly that way).

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Datatrieve, my favorite point of reference. It's also a language that was written for non-professionals. It's also the language in which I learned how to do a relational join. For a language created for "non-professionals" It's surprising how much I got out of it, although I was some 15 years into the profession by that time.

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Simula 67. Listed as the earliest Object Oriented Programming language. Way back in 1967... get a load of that. Notably, it mentions that it had a "garbage collector". When I was arguing that Java devotees were a little too jazzed with Java's GC, I used lisp as a point of reference. It turns out I need not have gone to such a distant language. I could have referred to Simula 67, an OO language instead.

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The people who think that everything prior to 1991 was "stone age" should take notice of this. Received on Sat Oct 09 2004 - 22:21:40 CEST