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Cleanup and historical prose

From Wikipedia:Cleanup#September_12 ...

  • History of programming languages - no prose; just a list of links to articles about programming languages arranged in order of their invention; doesn't make any sense --Szyslak

I've turned this into a list of major programming laguages with years, and see also to Timeline of programming languages. I leave it to others to put in historical prose. ;-) -- sabre23t 03:09, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

  • Someone has suggested that some of the HOPL page content be merged in here. I, for one, dislike this idea. HOPL is a unique conference in that it goes into depth on important languages (once every 15 years). As part of the preparation for HOPL III, the program committee is trying to create a community view of the history of the classes of languages covered by the HOPL III. Hence the history material in the HOPL III page is not a fully general history, rather it concentrates on material associated with the specific information to be in the conference. We would like the experiment to continue here on Wikipedia --n2cjn
  • It seems as if there is no more discussion regarding merger at this time. Can we remove the link on the main page? --n2cjn

Hollerith card size

I removed part of a sentence that talked about Hollerith punched cards being the same size as the dollar bill, because:

  • it's irrelevant to this "History of Programming Languages" article.
  • it's already covered (in more detail) in Punch card.
  • it's probably just an urban legend, anyway.

T-bonham (talk) 08:21, 21 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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