James Iry has posted A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages, a hilarious look at the development of programming languages over the years.
Some of my favorites:
On C:
“1972 - Dennis Ritchie invents a powerful gun that shoots both forward and backward simultaneously. Not satisfied with the number of deaths and permanent maimings from that invention he invents C and Unix.”
~ James Iry A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
On Objective-C:
“1986 - Brad Cox and Tom Love create Objective-C, announcing "this language has all the memory safety of C combined with all the blazing speed of Smalltalk." Modern historians suspect the two were dyslexic.”
~ James Iry A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
On LiveScript/JavaScript/ECMAScript:
“1995 - Brendan Eich reads up on every mistake ever made in designing a programming language, invents a few more, and creates... JavaScript”
~ James Iry A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
#1 by Partouze Lesbienne on June 29th, 2009
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hm. informative )
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#3 by none on April 17th, 2011
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This is the funniest thing I’ve read in ages.