I liked this a lot: A brief, incomplete and mostly wrong history of programming languages. It’s the modern version of Real programmers don’t use Pascal. Here’s a quote that tickled me:
1980 – Alan Kay creates Smalltalk and invents the term "object oriented." When asked what that means he replies, "Smalltalk programs are just objects." When asked what objects are made of he replies, "objects." When asked again he says "look, it’s all objects all the way down. Until you reach turtles."
And, yes, programming is also writing. But if you want something satirical about writing and marketing, check out my devil’s marketing dictionary: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.
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It reminds me of a review of the Jupiter Ace computer I wrote in 1982 for Your Computer,
The Jupiter Ace was made by the team who designed the Sinclair ZX80, but used the Forth programming language instead of Basic. At the time of the launch Forth looked like a smart idea – my review was positive about the language if not the computer.
Then I showed the machine to a friend who was a trained programmer. He told me: “Forth is a write-only language”.
Ouch.
.-= Bill Bennett´s last blog ..Office 2010 no, Word 2010 maybe =-.
“Real Programmers” needs an update. I’ve been writing in Delphi Pascal for the last 5 years, up until a recent layoff, and I’m not enjoying my interviews with these quiche-eating Java webdevs.
.-= Chris | Martial Development´s last blog ..Interview with an Intuitive Warrior =-.
Fair enough. Thought, I didn’t write it and it goes back a long, long time. I remember reading “Real programmers” when I was a schoolboy. I did my first commercial programming in Pascal too, on a Mac.