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Might be interesting for some of us: a timeline of programming languages starting in 1954 when Fortran was released until today.

Nice to see that PHP/FI started in 1995 as a branch of the Perl timeline (I think this is based on the resembling syntax, and PHP was originally coded in Perl). Since PHP 5.0 there are seperate branches for 4.x and 5.x.

That would have been hard to make :/

One day I'd love to add my language, Flake, to that list... one day.

Creating new languages is extremely difficult, most "new" languages were just based on another, like C was based on B was based on BCPL. Most of them have a long history.

I thought Kidkiller also created a very tiny language in C.

C++ to be exact. Its kinda dead, maybe someday I'l start working on it again.

Kidkiller, got any information on it? I'd love to see.

Some very old sourcecode, since then i'v rewritten the core to be OOP. http://script.sava.be/ ( I started the project to learn c++ so ignore the noobisch code )

Don't worry, you'd have known C++ better then than I do now.

I'm feeling noobish now, as I'm probably the only one until now who knows only one programming language really well (and that is PHP). I've bought myself a book about ANSI C a couple of years ago but never got into learning it. Years ago I learnt Turbo Pascal but at a very low level (it also included problem solving next to writing Pascal code) but that's about it.

Strange, it seems java has as ancestor Oak while java is based on C++ and Smalltalk? Am I that wrong?

PC_Freak wrote

I'm feeling noobish now, as I'm probably the only one until now who knows only one programming language really well (and that is PHP). I've bought myself a book about ANSI C a couple of years ago but never got into learning it. Years ago I learnt Turbo Pascal but at a very low level (it also included problem solving next to writing Pascal code) but that's about it.

Dont feel bad :d, you probably know PHP better then me.

I know PHP and Visual Basic/Basic well, but no other languages

And what do you think of line based languages? (vb is line based, isn't it?)

Line based: one line, one instruction
php isn't that way, you can put all on one line or one instruction on multiple lines (just end with

Afaik Python is line-based, but it doesn't use ; at the end of each statement. Even tab indents must be used for various constructions. The advantage is that the code is always well readable.