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Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages
The other day I read 20 most significant programming languages in history, a “preposterous table I just made up.” He certainly got preposterous right: he lists Go as “most significant” but not ALGOL, Smalltalk, or ML. He also leaves off Pascal because it’s “mostly dead”. Preposterous! That defeats the whole point of…
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Mar 26, 2020 | Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages by luu | 417 | 289 |
| Dec 18, 2022 | Ten influential programming languages (2020) by ksec | 363 | 240 |
| Jul 12, 2025 | Mostly dead influential programming languages (2020) by azhenley | 243 | 162 |
