# A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages

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**Created:** [May 8, 2009, 11:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong-history-of-programming-languages/287950 "2009-05-08T11:31:47Z")
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### Author: ![ramie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/edb3f5/32.png) [@ramie](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ramie)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2009, 11:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong-history-of-programming-languages/287950/1 "2009-05-08T11:31:47Z")

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Seen on hacker news this morning. Very funny.

> **[A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages](http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html)**
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> 1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave "hello, world" into a tapestry. Redditers of the time are not imp...

> 1972 - Dennis Ritchie invents a powerful gun that shoots both forward and backward simultaneously. Not satisfied with the number of deaths and permanent maimings from that invention he invents C and Unix.