Talk:Timeline of programming languages: Difference between revisions

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:It was programmed with punched cards. The hole pattern would have formed a language but not necessarily a human-readable one. However even machine languages can be (and many years ago were) used as programming languages. -- [[User:Derek Ross|Derek Ross]] | [[User talk:Derek Ross|Talk]] 01:49, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

:Apparently it can be interpreted like that ([https://therenegadecoder.com/code/what-is-a-programming-language/ What is a Programming Language?] and [https://therenegadecoder.com/code/who-gets-to-decide-what-is-and-isnt-a-programming-language/ Who Gets to Decide What Is and Isn’t a Programming Language?]). [[User:MarMi wiki|MarMi wiki]] ([[User talk:MarMi wiki|talk]]) 12:04, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

== Year ==

The article doesn't mention what year is taken into account, which is the key element of a chronology. Is that the year of invention, of the first public release even if alpha/beta, the first stable implementation? For example:

* Carbon is listed as a 2022 language, but it's only a project and is not defined yet, let alone implemented.

* Ruby is listed as a 1995 language, but it was conceived in 1993, had a first public beta release (or series of releases) in December 1995, and only had its first stable implementation in December 1996 (http://blog.nicksieger.com/articles/2006/10/20/rubyconf-history-of-ruby/).

If the meaning of "year" is not clearly specified, more such discrepancies are bound to happen.