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[geekchick]

A brief, incomplete, and mostly wrong history of programming languages

1964 - John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz create BASIC, an unstructured programming language for non-computer scientists.

1965 - Kemeny and Kurtz go to 1964.

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[tcepsa.livejournal.com]

That's awesome ^_^

My favorite was probably 1980:

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."

If I ever actually write anything in Smalltalk I need to remember to make everything an extension of Turtle. Looks like LOGO had it right the whole time!