Interoperability Happens - Billy Hollis on the history of programming languages

Friday, January 13, 2006

Billy Hollis, famed Visual Basic lecturer and secret programming language anthropologist, has compiled a succinct history of programming languages. As he puts it,

If you like VB, look at the history of the C family [of languages] first. If you like C#, Java or C++, look at the history of the BASIC family first.

Definitely something to quote next time you're in a (friendly) raging debate about "which language is better". :-)

Happy Friday.

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Friday, January 13, 2006 7:47:18 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
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Saturday, January 14, 2006 1:32:16 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

A cursory look at the BASIC page shows it's flawed. The birth of VB is grossly incorrect.

RichB

Sunday, January 15, 2006 9:32:53 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Uh, Rich, it's not supposed to be accurate. It's supposed to be funny. (And it is, in my opinion.)

Kania

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