HYhyperman1·Aug 12, 2022
Interesting. Based on its name, I assumed PL/SQL was derived from PL/I.
Then again, PL/I is a parent of ADA according to https://github.com/stereobooster/programming-languages-genea...
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In Monad Confusion and the Blurry Line Between Data and ComputationAsk HN: Visualizations of an Overview of Programming Languages
Having consulted search engines to death, I turn to the HN Community for some good visualizations that give an overview of the programming languages out there and include a lot more than just the mainstream languages. I'm struggling to find good results, because most searches are drowned in tutorials of "How to visualize data in $PL" or visualizations that cover a very small set of languages [0]. I found a visualization that shows the influence of programming languages on one another [1]. Something that includes such an insane amount of PLs, but for the visualizations described below, would be perfect.
I'm specifically looking for two kinds of visualizations:
1. A visualization that puts PLs into application domains: Something like a Venn diagram of the domains covered in [2] would be great.
2. A visualization that shows a timeline of pro
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gramming languages and how they branch off from another: Something like [0], but with more PLs. Perhaps with the data of [3], but visualized. I know of a visualization that does this for Linux distros [4].
[0] https://www.mindmeister.com/104015524/programming-languages
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4581948
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_domain
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_programming_languages
[4] http://futurist.se/gldt/
Any other visualizations about programming languages that you deem beautiful would be greatly appreciated as well. Some visualizations I found along the way:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17470161
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8544882
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9914924
https://github.com/stereobooster/programming-languages-genealogical-tree
(See also the "Similar projects" section. I shared this one with HN earlier today, since it was noticeably absent.)
https://hopl.info/taxandgenie.html (This one is a bit dated, unfortunately. I also shared it on HN.)
Programming Languages Genealogical Tree
2 points · Open discussionIronic that he uses these examples as a non-incremental innovation.
> LISP, Algol, Basic, APL, Unix, C, Oracle, Smalltalk, Windows, C++, LabView, HyperCard, Mathematica, Haskell, WWW, Python, Mosaic, Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Flash, Postgress.
while using the following as incremental:
> IntelliJ, Eclipse, ASP, Spring, Rails, Scala, AWS, Clojure, Heroku, V8, Go, React, Docker, Kubernetes, Wasm
What he doesn't understands is, everything is based on everything else. Many languages got inspiration from another language, or some other technology. https://github.com/stereobooster/programming-languages-genea...
There is no such thing as fully independent innovation. Not just in tech, but every single piece of innovation in human history.
In The Great Software StagnationI feel like a geneology of programming languages is also a useful representation. More here: https://github.com/stereobooster/programming-languages-genea...
Would be nice to have an interactive browseable/searchable/sortable graph with additional data such as year of release.
In A list of computer languages with release year and category