- The Early History of Programming Languages
- An introduction to object oriented languages
- The ascent of scripting languages
- Scripting Languages and the Web
- An introduction to functional programming
- The first programming jobs consisted of flipping switches and moving cables around...
- Java: "...led to the creation of gratuitous classes merely to enclose functions, and thus to an over-abundance of nouns in the code conversation...often becomes an exercise in verbosity."
- History of the scripting languages: from the JCL to Unix Shell to Pearl to Ruby.
- Lisp appeared around the same time as Fortran and COBOL the 3rd generation languages.
- "...Lisp is the first language to be based on the lambda calculus... It boggles the mind to realize how much more advanced Lisp was (and still is) than its contemporaries...
- Author's favorite language is Ruby.
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