Fly the Geek Flag High and Proud

Posted on August 16, 2006
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in honor of LinuxWorld I thought I would post this interesting chart depicting the history of programming languages, via Nikhil Kothari, which I seem to recall having posted once before but because it’s so good I am going to repost.

I did notice something interesting in reviewing this. If you look at the proliferation of languages that occurred in 1995-2000 they pretty much clustered around structured formal languages while over the last couple of years their seems to be widespread consolidation around C# and Java, with the great mass of language innovation happening in the scripting camp. The other observation is that the first formal programming language on the map is a constant straight line through the present, Fortran. It’s mind boggling to consider the durability of Fortran with over 50 years of continuous use.

UPDATE: yep, quick search revealed I linked to the PDF version of this back in June ‘04.

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