The issue of Wired I just picked up, July, features
two computer history items:
Finally a reason to check out the magazines my wife has mysteriously been
getting (we've no idea why).
A Wired-original 2-page history chart of all (about
75 total) popular computer languages since 1954.
I've got to question how accurate this is. It lists Algol 68 as "Extinct",
which it defines as "No known active users or up-to-date compilers". There
are at least a few users in the PDP-10 community.
It also lists BCPL as being extinct, yet IIRC it's still being sold by a
company in Europe.
Zane
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