Geek Humor
> 1936 - Alan Turing invents every programming language that will ever be but is shanghaied by British Intelligence to be 007 before he can patent them.
>
> 1936 - Alonzo Church also invents every language that will ever be but does it better. His lambda calculus is ignored because it is insufficiently C-like. This criticism occurs in spite of the fact that C has not yet been invented.
>
> 1940s - Various “computers” are “programmed” using direct wiring and switches. Engineers do this in order to avoid the tabs vs spaces debate.
from “A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages“
hahahaha. Except for the part about Perl. :)
>
> 1936 - Alonzo Church also invents every language that will ever be but does it better. His lambda calculus is ignored because it is insufficiently C-like. This criticism occurs in spite of the fact that C has not yet been invented.
>
> 1940s - Various “computers” are “programmed” using direct wiring and switches. Engineers do this in order to avoid the tabs vs spaces debate.
from “A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages“
hahahaha. Except for the part about Perl. :)