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Re:A brief, incomplete and mostly wrong history of programmi... by chops on Friday May 08, 2009 @02:40AM (#599299)
Each one of those was quite amusing.

1958 - John McCarthy and Paul Graham invent LISP.

1983 - Bjarne Stroustrup bolts everything he's ever heard of onto C to create C++. The resulting language is so complex that programs must be sent to the future to be compiled by the Skynet artificial intelligence.

I genuinely laughed out loud at this article.

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Re:A brief, incomplete and mostly wrong history of programmi... by gurraman on Friday May 08, 2009 @03:45AM (#599331)
As did I. I laughed out loud at most all of them.
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