That was by far the weakest article.
My favorite was the Crash Course in Compilers:
https://increment.com/programming-languages/crash-course-in-...
And not just that, but Delphi had tremendous influence on modern IDEs design.
Re:Programming Languages
by gameswithgo on Thursday April 26, 2018 @03:28PM
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Delphi was one of the great programs of all time. It is possible that all tools to create graphical desktop applications since are a step backward.
This comment got me Googling and I was amazed that I couldn't find a good, canonical list of programming languages.
The best I could find was a Wikipedia page, they're sorted by alpha which I find not very useful:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages
Does anyone know of a better resource?
This is where I think Wikipedia really falls down as a repository of information. It's crazy that if a new programming language is invented, people would have update N Wikipedia pages.
If I built a simple DB that had all this info and interfaces (web, API) that folks could use to query or contribute, would anyone find this useful?
It's the same thing with the XBase languages like dBase, Clipper, and FoxPro.
I'm not sure if it's just poor research skills with such articles, or just a general ignorance of PC software development history, but these languages and products were an integral part of the PC revolution.