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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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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