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

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 05:50:58PM +0000, Christopher Browne wrote:
> > 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. :)
> 
> According to the history of tcl (having it in the .tk TLD is pretty cool :-))
> http://www.tcl.tk/about/history.html
> work began on Tcl in early 1988.  So it's more or less a contemporary of Perl...

Doh.  I misread the small print on the chart I looked at.  Yes tcl is
from 1988. :(  So it matches with perl in age. :)  I thought have
realized that given it is a much higher level language than what I would
have expected in 1968.

Len Sorensen
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