For the geek in all of us…

I stumbled on a couple of articles recently pointing out the history of programming languages.  What originally pointed me at this was an article in Nikhil Kothari’s blog.  He pointed to a chart on O’Reilly’s website which listed out the history of programming languages from the 1950′s right through to the present.  A copy of the chart is availble for download as a PDF.  It’s amazing to see which languages influenced others… and how old some are.  I personally had no idea that Ruby had been around since February 1993  (Same approximate time as AppleScript).

Check it out… it’s worth a look!

There’s also a good textual history of programming languages in Wikipedia, not quite as visual, or as complete, but also interesting.