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The History of Programming Languages [Infographic]

July 27th, 2011

Rackspace recently published a nice infographic on the evolution of programming languages. It starts with FORTRAN and COBOL and runs through Ruby on Rails (which, yes, is a framework and not a language).

Unfortunately, it omits such influential languages as Lisp, ALGOL 60 and Smalltalk. But including every important language ever would make for a pretty long infographic.

The popularity stats at the end are apparently sourced from the oft criticized TIOBE. You can find the full sized graphic and bibliography here.

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Klint Finley is a Writer for ReadWriteWeb. He has a BA from The Evergreen State College, where he studied communications and mass media. He's the editor of the blogs Technoccult and Mediapunk, and has been writing about technology and culture for over 10 years. He lives in Portland, OR.

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