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[deniok]

Я лежу под столом, читая "A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages"

1970 - Niklaus Wirth creates Pascal, a procedural language. Critics immediately denounce Pascal because it uses "x := x + y" syntax instead of the more familiar C-like "x = x + y". This criticism happens in spite of the fact that C has not yet been invented.

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.

...

1990 - A committee formed by Simon Peyton-Jones, Paul Hudak, Philip Wadler, Ashton Kutcher, and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals creates Haskell, a pure, non-strict, functional language. Haskell gets some resistance due to the complexity of using monads to control side effects. Wadler tries to appease critics by explaining that "a monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?"

Comments

[alexott.livejournal.com]

про смоллтолк хорошо, да и про перл тоже

[deni-ok.livejournal.com]

Да тут для всех языков отлично выбраны основные мемы

[antilamer.livejournal.com]

Меня больше всего порадовало "It is a syntax error to write FORTRAN while not wearing a blue tie." и "Lambdas are relegated to relative obscurity until Java makes them popular by not having them."

[grep-z.livejournal.com]

Вот да, второе положило на лопатки. :)

[rssh.livejournal.com]

Да, там все хорошо ;)

[smalgin.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[petropavel]

сказочно прекрасно :)
Утащил к себе на русском
http://petropavel-nn.livejournal.com/31015.html
Несколько удручает количество хохм, которые я в силу ограниченности не понимаю :-)
В принципе если есть желание дополнить и исправить - велкам!