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18 Responses to “The Creators of 30 Programming Languages: pages, biographies, blogs, interviews”

1. Anonymous Coward, on June 17th, 2008 at 3:16 am Said:

   Missing the ‘h’ in http for John Ousterhout’s Wikipedia profile.

2. Patrick, on June 17th, 2008 at 3:45 am Said:

   Although Anders was the creator of the original TurboPascal compiler that gave birth to Borland, Delphi was more of a collective effort. And Danny Thorpe wasn’t so important at the time, but at later times. AFAIK it was Chuck Jadzewski who was the project leader for Delphi. You should research a little more.

3. ttt, on June 17th, 2008 at 6:26 am Said:

   ..You probably want to add Eiffel and Bertrand Meyer…

4. Daniel Pietraru, on June 17th, 2008 at 7:30 am Said:

   @AC
   Thanks, I fixed it.

   @Patrick
   Thanks, I added Chuck Jazdzewski but I don’t know of any good interview.

   @ ttt
   Thanks, I kick myself for missing Eiffel. I will try to include it.

5. website design, on June 17th, 2008 at 8:12 am Said:

   [creator fight: C vs. C++ vs. Java](http://www.gotw.ca/publications/c_family_interview.htm) (Ritchie/Stroustrup/Gosling) This interview is different from if they had each been given a list of one-line insults of the other two languages, and then had to choose one in turn, in rotation. Mostly.

6. Ed Borasky, on June 17th, 2008 at 8:50 am Said:

   You might want to take it up to 50 progamming languages, so you could get some of the ones you missed: APL, Algol, SNOBOL, PL/I, Occam among the old ones and Scala, Eiffel, Boo, Groovy and Factor among the new ones.

7. Phil L, on June 17th, 2008 at 9:46 am Said:

   Have you seen this site http://www.microsoft.com/uk/codechronicles/default.mspx
   (needs Silverlight)
   It’s got about 300 languages there and shows the history of code in timeline form.
   (we developed this for Microsoft earlier this year)

8. Patrick, on June 17th, 2008 at 9:52 am Said:

   Daniel, I forgot to say: the list is great

   There is a interesting resource by Danny Thorpe about Delphi: a book. It’s out of print, but it’s very interesting because it explain many of the design decisions in the making of Delphi. Oh, it seems to be available again:

   http://www.amazon.com/Delphi-Component-Design-Danny-Thorpe/dp/0201461366

9. Daniel, on June 17th, 2008 at 10:42 am Said:

   @Phil L

   Thanks for the link. It is very cool. One thing I would like there - the ability to maximize the plug-in window to get a better view.

10. Chris Rathman, on June 17th, 2008 at 11:46 am Said:

    Nice work.

    Years ago, for grins, I put together a page with pictures of PL creators.

11. boorad, on June 17th, 2008 at 4:05 pm Said:

    So, what about The D Programming Language and Walter Bright?

    http://www.digitalmars.com/d

12. vBharat » The Creators of 30 Programming Languages: pages, biographies, blogs, interviews | Little Tutorials, on June 21st, 2008 at 10:57 am Said:

    From vBharat » The Creators of 30 Programming Languages: pages, biographies, blogs, interviews | Little Tutorials…

    Behind any programming language there is a creator or sometimes a small team. Each language has a story and a philosophy and each creator had a motivation, a problem to solve. Here is a compiled list of languages with their creators and some links to i…

13. Mark Wisecarver, on August 18th, 2008 at 7:08 am Said:

    Can you even possibly get more Advertisements on this?

14. OJ, on August 19th, 2008 at 4:18 am Said:

    I’d also like to suggest adding F# to the mix:

    http://research.microsoft.com/fsharp/fsharp.aspx

    Created by Don Syme:

    http://research.microsoft.com/~dsyme/

15. john, on January 2nd, 2009 at 2:02 am Said:

    Each language has a story and a philosophy and each creator had a motivation, a problem to solve, programming required a lots of knowledge and experience you can get more knowledge and information from this.
    http://www.cyberdesignz.com/

16. ozgur, on January 5th, 2009 at 4:18 am Said:

    good work. Especially Delphi-c# passing is interesting case-study . really c# inherits from delphi ..

    regards
    ozgur

17. ozgur, on January 5th, 2009 at 4:19 am Said:

    good work.

    delphi-c# transition is a good case-study. really c# inherits from delphi.

    regards
    ozgur

18. SEO Dubai, on April 13th, 2009 at 12:43 am Said:

    I think it is very useful for every programmer to understand the history of programming languages and also to understand the reasoning and the way of thinking of the programming language designers

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