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.
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.
- URL includes /2009/05/ so I imagine May 2009.
  
  Or earlier, possibly
- 2009ish
Ok the javascript paragraph made me laugh.
I would love to see Go, Rust, Swift and Kotlin added to this. Anyone willing to take a shot?

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