A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages

1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave "hello, world" into a tapestry. Redditers of the time are not imp...

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Old but classic.
- I am old, so this tracks ;)
It may not be true but it's accurate.
Ok the javascript paragraph made me laugh.
I’m really unclear about when this was written, but it does not include rust or type safety
- Yeah. I'm sure it predates Rust by the simple evidence that it doesn't take any cheap shots at Rust.
- 2009ish
- URL includes /2009/05/ so I imagine May 2009.
  
  Or earlier, possibly
I would love to see Go, Rust, Swift and Kotlin added to this. Anyone willing to take a shot?

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