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Re:A brief, incomplete and mostly wrong history of programmi... by blogimus on Friday May 08, 2009 @03:28AM (#599324)
Hmm, no mention of Erlang. I'll add one.

1986 - Inspired by Prolog, Joe Armstrong designs a massively scalable messaging system that allows computers to SMS each other and has the attention span of a teenager. He calls it Erlang.

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Re:A brief, incomplete and mostly wrong history of programmi... by access_denied on Friday May 08, 2009 @12:08PM (#599807)
BTW, "lang" == german for "long"
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