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Speaking of languages dying out reminds me of a wonderful poster I
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saw a few years ago. It showed a timeline of the history (and possible
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future) of computing (abbreviated)...
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1893 - Ada Lovelace discovers Charles Babbage
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1895 - Ada Lovelace discovers the calculator is more fun than Charles Babbage
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1950 - COBOL is born; world celebrates
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1953 - FORTRAN is born; revenge on COBOL
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1957 - Death of COBOL predicted
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1963 - BASIC is born; a language for people who do counting on their fingers
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1965 - Death of FORTRAN predicted
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1966 - C is on the horizon
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1973 - Death of COBOL predicted
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1974 - Pascal is born; competition with C
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1977 - C is born; revenge on FORTRAN
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1979 - Ada is born; revenge on Charles Babbage
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1982 - Death of FORTRAN predicted
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1985 - Death of Charles Babbage predicted
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1986 - Death of COBOL predicted
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1991 - Charles Babbage legally pronounced dead
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1993 - Death of BASIC predicted
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1997 - merging of C and C++ into new language D
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2001 - dark monolith discovered on Jupiter moon; determined to be
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an old COBOL card deck for an accounts receivable program
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2002 - COBOL reborn as COBOL++
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2010 - Death of Pascal predicted
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