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Fbot1
October 8th, 2007, 02:22 AM
I was making this to try to demonstrate something but, I don't think it really it works well for my purposes (but maybe some one could expand this and use it on wikipedia). If any one wants to use this you can go ahead; I place it in the public domain. You will need dia to use the second file.
ironfistchamp
October 8th, 2007, 07:19 AM
Wow that's pretty cool. May have to show this to my lecturer. We were going over the evolution of programming languages last week so this should be pretty good.
igknighted
October 8th, 2007, 07:23 AM
Clearly made by someone who considers Ruby to be the pinnacle of all programming languages ;).
Gustav
October 8th, 2007, 07:26 AM
I would have put an arrow from Scheme to Python.

But thats based on programming the languages, not knowing the actual facts. :)
Fbot1
October 8th, 2007, 02:49 PM
Clearly made by someone who considers Ruby to be the pinnacle of all programming languages ;).

Actually, I don't really like Ruby. I was trying to keep it neat but still keep some chronological order.
forrestcupp
October 8th, 2007, 04:58 PM
So the perfect languages are Haskell, Common LISP, BASIC, Ruby, and C#.

Either that or those are the ones that are dead ends where people just give up.
Fbot1
October 8th, 2007, 05:33 PM
So the perfect languages are Haskell, Common LISP, BASIC, Ruby, and C#.

Either that or those are the ones that are dead ends where people just give up.

You need to keep in mind that this is pretty incomplete.
hod139
October 8th, 2007, 05:45 PM
(but maybe some one could expand this and use it on wikipedia).

Someone already has:
http://www.levenez.com/lang/history.html#01
Fbot1
October 8th, 2007, 05:56 PM
Someone already has:
http://www.levenez.com/lang/history.html#01

Hmm, well I wasted my time.
hod139
October 8th, 2007, 06:02 PM
Hmm, well I wasted my time.

I wouldn't say that. You were kind enough to release the source, the owner of the site I linked to is not. He only releases the result.
forrestcupp
October 8th, 2007, 08:02 PM
You need to keep in mind that this is pretty incomplete.

I wasn't trying to be mean. It's a pretty cool chart.
igknighted
October 8th, 2007, 08:40 PM
Hmm, well I wasted my time.

Your's is much more readable... That other one is too cluttered to really be useful.
Fbot1
October 8th, 2007, 09:24 PM
Your's is much more readable... That other one is too cluttered to really be useful.

Thanks