I'm not sure how many may have viewed the "programming languages history" chart at
http://www.levenez.com/lang/ but I noticed that the Basic family of languages has gotten short shrift. No mention of early DOS Basics at all, nor later ones for that matter. Nothing about the Basics for myriad other 8-bit and 16-bit platforms either, except one small mention of MS Basic 2.0 (1975) sitting between Basic (1964) and VB 1.0 (1991).
Anyway, people sometimes get excited about this sort of thing. I wondered if anyone with a timetable for the DOS Basics from Microsoft might want to send an email to inform the chart author.
http://www.download-qb.tk is an excellent repository of most of the DOS based BASICS and the earlier VB series, complete with historical descriptions -- all thanks to our very own nathan.
But it's offline until I get new web space
In the early days of (cable) broadband we were offered symmetric (up/down) data rates, static IPs, a basic DNS name within the ISP's domain, and servers were tolerated.
Now I can't figure out what the story is:
- Money-grubbing broadband ISPs over-subscribing network nodes
- File swapping popularity that would consume all available bandwidth
- Big Brother trying to lock the Internet into a "shopping by TV" mostly-passive model where only the Disneys can offer content
- Legions of morons who get hacked and zombied
- Legions of morons who hack and zombie
- All of the above
The speeds were something like 3Mbps symmetric, plenty good enough to host decent web sites that weren't insanely popular. You just hosted your own Telnet/FTP/Web/etc. servers.
the chart is kinda hard to read. i didnt know fortran was the first language.
Yep, the chart stinks. It is meant to be printed out over several sheets of paper I believe.
Possibly true factiod:
Quote:Konrad Zuse in Nazi Germany may have developed the first real computer programming language, "Plankalkul" ca. 1945. This is mentioned in the 1978 ACM History of Programming Languages FORTRAN session.
According to Sammet, over 200 programming languages were developed between 1952 and 1972, but she considered only about 13 of them to be significant.
http://people.ku.edu/~nkinners/LangList/...famous.htm
Quote:In the early days of (cable) broadband we were offered symmetric (up/down) data rates, static IPs, a basic DNS name within the ISP's domain, and servers were tolerated.
Now I can't figure out what the story is:- Money-grubbing broadband ISPs over-subscribing network nodes
- File swapping popularity that would consume all available bandwidth
- Big Brother trying to lock the Internet into a "shopping by TV" mostly-passive model where only the Disneys can offer content
- Legions of morons who get hacked and zombied
- Legions of morons who hack and zombie
- All of the above
The speeds were something like 3Mbps symmetric, plenty good enough to host decent web sites that weren't insanely popular. You just hosted your own Telnet/FTP/Web/etc. servers.
Quit ranting! and why the hell is everybody getting all sentimental about QB dying?! QB will never die!! Well atleast as long as its followers are alive!
I wasn't moaning about QB dying, because I believe it's already as dead as it'll get until machines that can run 16-bit DOS-mode code are rare.
I was more concerned that QB isn't getting its due in that chart and wondered if anybody else gave a crap.
dilettante: it shall be emulated! DOS BOX already exists! And with increasingly powerful machines it will get faster. So dont worry