85% languages (was Re:Linux fat/bloated)

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Fri Apr 7 17:33:06 UTC 2006


On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 07:03:45PM -0400, Sy Ali wrote:
> > Minor point, but Perl has been around for longer than I care to admit
> > knowing about.  Certainly much longer than relative newcomers like Ruby,
> > PHP, python or even TCL.
> 
> Ruby is a lot older than you realise.  =)

Looks to me like:
PHP: 1995
Java: 1995
Ruby: 1993
Python: 1991
Perl: 1987
TCL: 1968 (hardly a newcomer)

I think TCL is the one I most object to be considered a newcomer, at
least compared to perl. :)

Len Sorensen
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