Bruce Sterling @bruces*When you hack, but your first languages is not English
Medea Vanamonde🏳️⚧️ ♀@bruces what ! No Basic Bruce?
shentonfreude@bruces I don't see BASIC, FORTRAN, Pascal, and PL/1, my first languages. Nor LISP, Prolog. Damn kids, get off my lawn!
EvilTofu@shentonfreude lisp is there at the bottom.
Arturo Serrano 🇨🇴🤖👽🧙🦄@bruces The choice to order them alphabetically instead of by date makes for very confusing reading.
C. E. M. Henderson@carturo222 @bruces er, does your alphabet come in a different order than mine does
@carturo222 @bruces happens to the best of us
marcus@carturo222 @bruces My version of sorting alphabetically might be special but will have 'Rust > Go', 'Clojure < Scala', 'Css < Typescript', etc...
Aaron Toponce ⚛️
@bruces Why is the graphic not sorted either alphabetically by language name, or numerically by release date?
Royce WilliamsBecause newcomers to the Internet are used to being presented with unsorted lists that must be consumed by brute force.
So that's what they produce.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57158/ballad-of-orange-and-grape
@bruces The oldest (and not listed) programming language I had contact with would be Forth (1970).
D2@bruces ahem… SQL
Folks can make strong arguments it ain’t a programming language, but it’s something I hack.
Christian Tillich@bruces my first language is German then Spanish... In my teens I thought myself English and in my 30's I learned French.
The oldest programing language I'm proficient in (and by no way the first I lernend) is COBOL, when I was studying programming (early 2000 in south America) it was still considered useful, even if it was outdated, because a bunch of legacy wending machines still ran on COBOL
The oldest programing language I'm proficient in (and by no way the first I lernend) is COBOL, when I was studying programming (early 2000 in south America) it was still considered useful, even if it was outdated, because a bunch of legacy wending machines still ran on COBOL