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Speaking of languages dying out reminds me of a wonderful poster I
saw a few years ago. It showed a timeline of the history (and possible
future) of computing (abbreviated)...
1893 - Ada Lovelace discovers Charles Babbage
1895 - Ada Lovelace discovers the calculator is more fun than Charles Babbage
1950 - COBOL is born; world celebrates
1953 - FORTRAN is born; revenge on COBOL
1957 - Death of COBOL predicted
1963 - BASIC is born; a language for people who do counting on their fingers
1965 - Death of FORTRAN predicted
1966 - C is on the horizon
1973 - Death of COBOL predicted
1974 - Pascal is born; competition with C
1977 - C is born; revenge on FORTRAN
1979 - Ada is born; revenge on Charles Babbage
1982 - Death of FORTRAN predicted
1985 - Death of Charles Babbage predicted
1986 - Death of COBOL predicted
1991 - Charles Babbage legally pronounced dead
1993 - Death of BASIC predicted
1997 - merging of C and C++ into new language D
2001 - dark monolith discovered on Jupiter moon; determined to be
an old COBOL card deck for an accounts receivable program
2002 - COBOL reborn as COBOL++
2010 - Death of Pascal predicted
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