Where Ruby (and other languages) came from

[paul]

The family tree purporting to show the evolution of programming
languages: http://bluebones.net/evolution/evo-prog-lang.png

Regards,

Paul.

[Gregory Brown]

On 6/14/07, paul <nov...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The family tree purporting to show the evolution of programming
> languages: http://bluebones.net/evolution/evo-prog-lang.png

Perl and smalltalk are obvious, but I wonder where they got Ada, Dylan and CLU?

They're missing the Lisp connection too.

[Gregory Brown]

Also, depending on how recent this is, C# should be showing Ruby influence.

[paul]

On Jun 14, 10:20 am, "Gregory Brown" <gregory.t.br...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 6/14/07, Gregory Brown <gregory.t.br...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> > On 6/14/07, paul <nova...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > The family tree purporting to show the evolution of programming
> > > languages: http://bluebones.net/evolution/evo-prog-lang.png
>
> > Perl and smalltalk are obvious, but I wonder where they got Ada, Dylan and CLU?
>
> > They're missing the Lisp connection too.
>
> Also, depending on how recent this is, C# should be showing Ruby influence.

The author says he used Wikipedia as of the date he produced it. I
don't see much about influences from a quick scan of the current
entry.

Here is another take, as a time line, by this guy: http://www.levenez.com/lang/
that O'Reilly colorized: http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/news/languageposter_0504.html

The color one might be worth printing at Kinko's for geeky wall-art.

Regards,

Paul.

[paul]

> > Also, depending on how recent this is, C# should be showing Ruby influence.

This is clearly over-simplified, there is much more cross-pollination
over time. Recent versions of Java have been influenced by C#, etc. I
guess you just gotta make your own chart...

[Gregory Brown]

On 6/14/07, paul <nov...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Here is another take, as a time line, by this guy: http://www.levenez.com/lang/
> that O'Reilly colorized: http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/news/languageposter_0504.html

This one I think is a lot clearer because of the timeline.

They say when Ruby started, it was influenced by Perl, Eiffel,
Smalltalk, and Python. I think that's probably right, some of the
functional tricks like inject didn't come until way later anyway.