> C was basically portable assembly for the original Unix.

...and yet, it doesn't make it especially easy to do low-level stuff.

>> - 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?

Yes. Very ancient, as the chart shows.

>> - SQL existed 15 years before high-capacity storage devices appeared. 
> 
> My uncle said that back then, they created ad-hoc, file-based database 
> management systems by themselves.  People were much bolder back then. :)

But what did dthey *store* these files on? Punch cards?!

>> - 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.

Haskell 1.0 is 1990. I guess green-screens is stretching it a litle, but 
lots of people were still using MS-DOS regularly long after that date. 
(And writing stuff in QBASIC and similar.)

Miranda, of course, is even older. (See the chart.)

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