Post 9pX6CqlVz11BSK08rA by chucker@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #9pWgerxcXEowSlMbg0 by codesections@fosstodon.org
       2019-12-01T16:18:09Z
       
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       I'm slightly bemused by this Wikipedia article that lists programming languages in chronological order.According to the article, three of the five most recently released languages are C++, C, and Fortranhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_programming_languages#2010sNow, I get that it's referring to new *versions* of those languages released in the past year or two.  But it's not like other languages haven't *also* released new versions/editions.  So I'm still not sure what's up with the list.
       
 (DIR) Post #9pWhZMkdFAquAtECGm by max@fosstodon.org
       2019-12-01T16:27:25Z
       
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       @codesections I dunno, seems pretty clear that it's, eh, C++17, C18, and Fortran 2018......which seems to beg why they have these "big year-tagged new versions" instead of something more understated like #semver
       
 (DIR) Post #9pWisywHaOje4Jawvw by wizzwizz4@fosstodon.org
       2019-12-01T16:43:21Z
       
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       @max @codesections Backwards-incompatibility, and retaining historical naming systems.
       
 (DIR) Post #9pWqKzfj9aqm859hYG by rudolf@fosstodon.org
       2019-12-01T18:06:49Z
       
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       @wizzwizz4 @max @codesections You forgot Cobol2014 :)
       
 (DIR) Post #9pWt2eHMFmssQihWFs by mdhughes@cybre.space
       2019-12-01T18:36:47Z
       
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       @codesections It lists K&R C in 1972, C90 in 1988-9, C99, C11, C18 in appropriate years.Now, what's annoying is it only lists Scheme in 1975, not the R[1-7]RS since then.
       
 (DIR) Post #9pX5MVeZESL2v4nH0a by codesections@fosstodon.org
       2019-12-01T20:54:53Z
       
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       @mdhughes > It lists K&R C in 1972, C90 in 1988-9, C99, C11, C18 in appropriate years.  Now, what's annoying is it only lists Scheme in 1975, not the R[1-7]RS since then.Yeah, that's mostly what I'm getting at.  It also doesn't list Rust 2018 (a major release) or JavaScript's ES6 (which, imo, basically transformed JS as a language). There's probably some logic to it, but it escapes me at the level of effort I'm willing to invest on causal curiosity.
       
 (DIR) Post #9pX6CqlVz11BSK08rA by chucker@mastodon.social
       2019-12-01T21:04:16Z
       
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       @codesections @mdhughes I don’t think there’s much logic beyond “whoever edited this page likes C++ and doesn’t care about JS”
       
 (DIR) Post #9pX6KaUmMGq3JPrYPY by mdhughes@cybre.space
       2019-12-01T21:05:42Z
       
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       @codesections Well, wikipedia is a bunch of kids role-playing as encyclopedia editors. So they know the stuff that's easy to find. If you want & know more, edit it yourself and then prepare for weeks or months of idiots vandalizing your changes.
       
 (DIR) Post #9pXxclGqKWK9VvtZkO by katana_steel@mast.linuxgamecast.com
       2019-12-02T07:02:44Z
       
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       @codesectionsI do see the page seems it's fine to include language revisions for C,C++, Fortran,  and suchBut looks like Java have been over looked (1.7 or just 7,1.8, 9, 10, 11, 13 etc. In recent times)