Invisible escreveu:
> - Pascal predates C, and yet C fails to incorporate almost any of the 
> good ideas from Pascal.

It was just a small and obscure academic language back then.  C was 
basically portable assembly for the original Unix.

> - Smalltalk was doing OOP before home computers were even *invented*, 
> and yet it wasn't until 20 _years_ later that commercial products like 
> TP 5.5 and Delphi started to take the idea mainstream.

Smalltalk is actually from about 1977 or something, isn't it?

> - SQL existed 15 years before high-capacity storage devices appeared. 
> (This is worse than it appears. You wouldn't even realise that a 
> language like SQL was *necessary* unless databases themselves had 
> already existed for some considerable length of time. And after that 
> there would obviously be a rash of incompatible proprietry languages 
> until people decided to design a standardised one.)

My uncle said that back then, they created ad-hoc, file-based database 
management systems by themselves.  People were much bolder back then. :)

> - PostScript was invented 10 years before laser printers existed. (It 
> was apparently designed specifically with laser printers in mind, as I 
> had always believed.)

Is it so?

> - Haskell was invented back when people were still using green screens 
> and MS-DOS. It brings a slight chill to my spine to know that way back 
> when I was still coding with AMOS Professional, minds immeasurably 
> superior to ours had already constructed the most powerful programming 
> language known.

Are you talking about Miranda?  Yes, it was the spiritual basis for Haskell.

> - Perl predates the Internet by half a decade. (WTF?) I can only imagine 
> it began life as a Unixy text-munging system in the style of awk, sed, etc.

Yes.  Scripting languages were not devised for the internet.

> - JavaScript predates Java. (WTF?!)

Perhaps would be called oakscript? ;)

> - Visual Basic is significantly older than Delphi.

No, just a few years.

> - Ruby, PHP and JavaScript were all around at the same time as Delphi. 
> This is puzzling because when Delphi was new, the Internet didn't really 
> "exist" yet.

I was browsing the web (at University) in 1994, about same time those 
were starting.

> - C# (by which I denote the entire zoo of .NET languages) is the only 
> thing in the chart to have been invented this millennium.

It's an amalgama of Java and Delphi Pascal.  and some hints of Python as 
of late...

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