From: "Jörg W Mittag" <JoergWMittag+Usenet@...>
Date: 2009-08-31T03:40:05+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Programming Language History Visualization (#219)

Daniel Moore wrote:
> ## Programming Language History Visualization (#219)
> 
> Ol� Rubyists,
> 
> This week's quiz is to create a a visualization of the history of
> programming languages. The output should be a directed graph with
> edges indicating which languages influenced other languages. A good
> source for the data is Wikipedia[1].

Here's a couple of other ones:

Encyclopedia of Programming Languages: <http://HoPL.Murdoch.Edu.Au/>

The famous Computer Languages Poster: <http://Levenez.Com/lang/>

O'Reilly's version of the above:
<http://Wiki.OReillyNet.Com/languageposter/>

Diagram & History of Programming Languages:
<http://Merd.SourceForge.Net/pixel/language-study/diagram.html>
(Nice extra for the Quiz: this one's got machine-readable sources for
the diagram!)

And another one: <http://EPEMag.Com/zuse/Images/43ab.gif>

Mother Tongues of Computer Languages:
<http://DigiBarn.Com/collections/posters/tongues/>
(This one is by far the least technically accurate. It misses or
misconstrues several important connections, e.g. Modula-3 is not
derived from Modula, it was an independent development that only uses
the Modula *name* (after asking Wirth for permission, of course);
Netscape did not license the name Java from Sun to ride its hype,
exactly the opposite is true: Sun paid (bribed?) Netscape to rename
LiveScript to JavaScript in order to ride *its* hype; C# is much less
influenced by Java and C++ than this chart suggests, its major
influences are Modula-2, Turbo Pascal and Delphi, and so on.)

Programming Languages Genealogy Project:
<http://Everything2.Com/?node_id=858421>

A Chronology of Influential Computer Languages:
<http://People.KU.Edu/~nkinners/LangList/Extras/famous.htm>

Alphabetical list of programming languages: <http://SK.NVG.Org/lang/>

History of Programming Languages:
<http://EECS.UCF.Edu/~leavens/ComS541Fall97/hw-pages/history/>

Dictionary of Programming Languages:
<http://CGIBin.Erols.Com/ziring/cgi-bin/cep/cep>

And of course Wikipedia:
<http://Wikipedia.Org/wiki/Category:Computer_languages>

jwm