 diagram & history of programming languages
started 12/31/2000; 5:26:55 AM - last post 1/4/2001; 10:57:27 AM
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pixel - diagram & history of programming languages 
12/31/2000; 5:26:55 AM (reads: 1807, responses: 8)
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Chris Rathman - Re: diagram & history of programming languages
12/31/2000; 6:39:10 AM (reads: 1827, responses: 0)
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The only other language history diagram that I know of can be found here.
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Ehud Lamm - Re: diagram & history of programming languages
1/1/2001; 5:23:27 AM (reads: 1824, responses: 0)
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Pixel, it would be nice if there was a printable version of the diagram. The way it is now, it gets truncated in printing.
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pixel - Re: diagram & history of programming languages
1/1/2001; 6:15:04 AM (reads: 1793, responses: 0)
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Ehud, done.
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Ehud Lamm - Re: diagram & history of programming languages
1/1/2001; 6:58:22 AM (reads: 1786, responses: 0)
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Thanks!
I think there is something wrong with the DSC though. If I don't tell gohstview to "ignore DSC," I can only view the first page. This is no biggy (and maybe it is just that my gohstview is old).
While we are at it: Is Postscript in the diagram? 
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Ehud Lamm - Re: diagram & history of programming languages
1/1/2001; 7:01:24 AM (reads: 1782, responses: 0)
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Well, I checked. Postscript is there. Now should DSC be added? Is it a dialect?
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pixel - Re: diagram & history of programming languages
1/1/2001; 11:19:42 AM (reads: 1785, responses: 0)
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As far as i've looked, DSC means Document Structuring Comments and is a convention for the postscript comments ``which permits processing of PS files without the processing programs needing language level knowledge of the PS file's contents.''
It seems to be a PostScript level 3 requirement. Now should the different PostScript revision be added, yet, let's put PDF too in that case... And what about XML/XSL?
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Ehud Lamm - Re: diagram & history of programming languages
1/1/2001; 3:06:04 PM (reads: 1778, responses: 0)
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DSC is used, for example, to mark page breaks. Analyzing Postscript, which is Turing complete, can be intractable.
I am not sure I'd put PDF down as a language. It is more of a file format. But I am no expert on PDF.
XML/XSL belong to a different family, even though they may be used for similar purposed. I don't think XML can be called a programming language (and about XSL we argued at length some months ago). Markup language have their own history (which would include GML, SGML, HTML, etc. but also other sub-families).
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Ehud Lamm - Re: diagram & history of programming languages
1/4/2001; 10:57:27 AM (reads: 1785, responses: 0)
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Pixel, how about creating a page here (the Manilla term is 'story') containing links to diagrams of this sort? Seems like a nice addition to the site. Any chance you got the time? (I'll be glad to add it to the navigation options on the left).
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