1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave "hello, world" into a tapestry. Redditers of the time are not imp...
  • Lucy :3@feddit.org
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    5 hours ago

    1996 - James Gosling invents Java. Java is a relatively verbose, garbage collected, class based, statically typed, single dispatch, object oriented language with single implementation inheritance and multiple interface inheritance. Sun loudly heralds Java’s novelty.

    2001 - Anders Hejlsberg invents C#. C# is a relatively verbose, garbage collected, class based, statically typed, single dispatch, object oriented language with single implementation inheritance and multiple interface inheritance. Microsoft loudly heralds C#'s novelty.

    Accurate.

  • hallettj@leminal.spaceEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    Always a good one! It seems overdue for an update to include Clojure, Go, Rust, Typescript, Swift, and Zig.