History of programming languages

[Firus]

Poster It is awesome for printing off and posting in your cubicle at work.

I knew Java was derived from C++, Ada and Smalltalk but what is Cedar and Oak?

 

[AFB]

Oak was Java's predecessor .

Here is the diagram that this was based on.

 

[tart666]

wow, these guys really don't like MS languages...

there's 9 minor version of PHP 4 shown (even sub-minor!) and .NET 1.1 is missing altogether...

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

I'm pretty sure .NET isn't a programming language. C# and VB.NET are on there, but I dunno how up-to-date it is regarding them. And yeah, the php and python x.x.x releases are a bit much, it should just list 4.2, 4.3, etc. But then again, those are the "hot" languages in the open source world (o'reilly seems to mostly focus on open source stuff)

 

[tart666]

is Java "open source" ? (it seems o'really is paying a lot of attention to it, marking 1.4.0_01 and such)

(and yes, by .NET 1.1 I meant, VB.NET 2003, c# whatever, J#, and the other 20 .NET languages...)

 

[Templeton]

Originally posted by: tart666
is Java "open source" ? (it seems o'really is paying a lot of attention to it, marking 1.4.0_01 and such)

(and yes, by .NET 1.1 I meant, VB.NET 2003, c# whatever, J#, and the other 20 .NET languages...)

No, it's not... I'd say it's a lot more accepted in the open source community then .net though.
Pretty cool chart, whould love a poster size print of it.

 

[kamper]

Java's not quite open source but it's close enough. When you can setup an entire enterprise development/deployment environment for $0 it's good enough. Not that it matters much but I have read about open source implementations of the jvm. I don't think anybody really uses them, though. The bytecode spec is open (I believe) or at least well understood so writing an open source java compiler should be easy enough.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Heh, I dunno if I'd call it "easy." But yeah, doable, and has been done.

 

[AFB]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
Heh, I dunno if I'd call it "easy." But yeah, doable, and has been done.

You mean you don't write compliers over the weekend ? 🙂

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: amdfanboy

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
Heh, I dunno if I'd call it "easy." But yeah, doable, and has been done.

You mean you don't write compliers over the weekend ? 🙂

Maybe I should start. Then I'll have yet another thing I've started and will probably never finish 😀

 

[AFB]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Originally posted by: amdfanboy

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
Heh, I dunno if I'd call it "easy." But yeah, doable, and has been done.

You mean you don't write compliers over the weekend ? 🙂

Maybe I should start. Then I'll have yet another thing I've started and will probably never finish 😀

Same here

 

[Kntx]

Originally posted by: Firus
Poster It is awesome for printing off and posting in your cubicle at work.

I knew Java was derived from C++, Ada and Smalltalk but what is Cedar and Oak?

Nice. My office has a new poster!! Bringing my poster count to a grand total of... 1.

 

[notfred]

I think I'll print it out about 4 feet wide on the BIG printer later 🙂

 

[notfred]

I printed it out 3' x 6' on glossy paper 🙂 It's now on the wall by my desk.

 

[drag]

history of Unix

history of Windows

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

I want a 3' printer 🙁

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
I want a 3' printer 🙁

Get a job at a place that makes maps 🙂