{"id":189186,"date":"2010-05-09T11:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T16:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/05\/09\/a-brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong-history-of-programming-languages\/"},"modified":"2010-05-09T11:23:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T16:23:00","slug":"a-brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong-history-of-programming-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/05\/09\/a-brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong-history-of-programming-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Iry is <a href=\"http:\/\/james-iry.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html\">a very funny man<\/a>, here is a sample:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>1964 &#8211; John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz create BASIC, an unstructured programming language for non-computer scientists.<\/p>\n<p>1965 &#8211; Kemeny and Kurtz go to 1964.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am not a computer programmer, and I get the humor and find it funny.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/delong.typepad.com\/sdj\/2010\/05\/i-think-the-last-line-i-have-quoted-is-the-funniest-thing-i-have-ever-heard.html\">Economist  J. Bradford DeLong<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Iry is a very funny man, here is a sample: 1964 &#8211; John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz create BASIC, an unstructured programming language for non-computer scientists. 1965 &#8211; Kemeny and Kurtz go to 1964. I am not a computer programmer, and I get the humor and find it funny. H\/t Economist J. Bradford DeLong<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1060,1100,1002,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-funny","category-good-writing","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}