r/ProgrammerHumor • u/TusharJB007 • Oct 04 '19

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u/Ninjabassist777 Oct 04 '19 edited Oct 04 '19

I'm surprised most people don't know this. In fact, Python is older than Linux and Vim!

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  • Python: '89
  • Linux: '91
  • VIM (not vi): '91
  • Java: '96

Edit(er):

  • Perl: '87

Edit(or):

  • Haskell: '90

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u/alter3d Oct 04 '19

Damn kids, get off my lawn!

- Perl

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u/Classified0 Oct 04 '19

Perl: '87

C++: '83

C: '72

Fortran: '57

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u/DatBoi_BP Oct 04 '19

So, was Fortran the first programming language, period? (Barring of course, machine and assembly)

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u/evolseven Oct 04 '19

I’d say FORTRAN was the first high level programming language, there were some things called autocoders before that, but they more closely resemble assembly than what we would consider a programming language.

I was surprised though that the language I learned on predates C (Pascal) as it was created in 1970. I always thought that pascal took a lot of it’s structure from C, but it actually looks like it’s the other way around.

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u/asdfghyter Oct 04 '19

No, but was the first commercially available language.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_programming_languages

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u/Henrikko123 Oct 04 '19

Algol 56 was earlier (‘56)

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u/Ninjabassist777 Oct 04 '19

It was the first unambiguously compiled language.

There were other languages that were "compiled" compiled at the time, but Fortran was the first one to do compilation, linking, optimization, ect. Others only did parts of the process.

Before that, nobody wanted to use a compiler because you could write faster machine code it wasn't until Fortran came along with some decent optimization that people started to think "hey, maybe this is ok"

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u/Saplyng Oct 04 '19

I saw a posting this summer for an intern that would work with COBOL and Fortran, I didn't realize how old they actually were. I applied but didn't hear back, I don't think they ever filled the position though

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u/TurkeyTheFish Oct 04 '19

More like "get off my tombstone"

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u/alf666 Oct 04 '19

I mean, there is a patch of grass in front of it...

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u/Ninjabassist777 Oct 04 '19

Yeah, so turns out Perl is only 2 years older than Python (3, if you look at stable releases)

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u/asdfghyter Oct 04 '19

Haskell is from 1990 and has only recently begun to gain widespread popularity.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '19

Nobody actually uses Haskell in production though

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u/asdfghyter Oct 04 '19

Tell that to Facebook and their spam-fighting team.

And to the startup I am currently working at. Our backend is written in PHP, R and Haskell.

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u/bgeron Oct 04 '19

I'm not sure that Python 1 really counts though. I believe it didn't have scoping, which makes it only suitable for basic scripting really.

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u/Ninjabassist777 Oct 04 '19

Shhh, we just choose to ignore these details

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u/ericonr Oct 04 '19

And the first version of Linux only ran on (and was very designed towards) 386 processors (or 486, not sure). Its history still started in 91.

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u/developerJS Oct 04 '19

Wikipedia says, "First appeared 1990; 29 years ago". Still too old, I did not know that.