Comments on: Evolution of Programming Languages

By: Sindy

Sindy — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 01:46:59 +0000

Looking at the comments, I suppose some parts of the diagram could be considered “controversial” (perhaps there will be a v2.0 with adjustments based on user feedback and sources other than Wikipedia?), but I still think it’s very cool, very nerdy/geeky (good), and reflects great effort. Do you have a vector version (instead of png)? This would be a great thing to blow up to poster size.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 11:28:57 +0000

Delphi is not (or was not) a programming language. It is an IDE for the Object Pascal programming language. The same language that (later versions of) Turbo Pascal used.

By: 123456

123456 — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 22:28:27 +0000

what about lua?

By: bakert

bakert — Tue, 31 May 2011 18:42:27 +0000

I’m really excited that someone linked to this diagram I drew more than five years ago, but I’m even less interested in getting into whether Forth is or is not a programming language than I was in March 2006. Feel free to make your own diagram and link it up in the comments.

By: Warren Young

Warren Young — Tue, 31 May 2011 18:36:35 +0000

Which Wikipedia article are you referring to as a source for this so-called list of “major” programming languages? You don’t link to it, and a search for “major programming languages” on WP doesn’t turn up an article of that title.

There is one for Programming Languages (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Programming_language) and it does mention Forth.

This article and the pages linked from it (particularly the Tiobe index and langpop.com) is probably a better starting point: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Measuring_programming_language_popularity

Another language that has achieved popularity since this posting, 5 years ago, is Erlang, which branches off from Prolog.

By: Evolution des languages de programmation

Evolution des languages de programmation — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 21:58:56 +0000

[...] Source : http://bluebones.net/2006/03/evolution-of-programming-languages/ [...]

By: Thomas David Baker

Thomas David Baker — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 17:31:38 +0000

Yes, as this post makes abundantly clear: http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/seanl/stuff/java-objc.html

So Wikipedia is now somewhat more accurate than it was in March. I shan’t claim all the credit

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 13:13:08 +0000

Java was actually inflenced by Objective-C

By: Robert Claypool

Robert Claypool — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 01:06:48 +0000

Between BASIC and “Visual Basic” either Quick Basic or PDS should be in there, and FreeBASIC also inherits from Quick Basic.

http://www.freebasic.net/

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 23:37:20 +0000

Javascript inherits heavily from Perl, including its use of regexp, list, and object literals and short-circuit logical operators.