# Programming Language History Visualization (#219) **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [August 30, 2009, 7:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/programming-language-history-visualization-219/174638 "2009-08-30T19:28:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![danmcb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@danmcb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/danmcb)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2009, 7:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/programming-language-history-visualization-219/174638/1 "2009-08-30T19:28:13Z")
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- The three rules of Ruby Q.: 1. Please do not post any solutions or spoiler discussion for this quiz until 48 hours have elapsed from the time this message was sent. 2. Support Ruby Q. by submitting ideas and responses as often as you can! Visit: [http://rubyquiz.strd6.com/suggestions](http://rubyquiz.strd6.com/suggestions) 3. Enjoy! Suggestion: A [QUIZ] in the subject of emails about the problem helps everyone on Ruby T. follow the discussion. Please reply to the original quiz message, if you can. RSS Feed: [http://rubyquiz.strd6.com/quizzes.rss](http://rubyquiz.strd6.com/quizzes.rss) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ## Programming Language History Visualization (#219) Olá Rubyists, This week’s quiz is to create a a visualization of the history of programming languages. The output should be a directed graph with edges indicating which languages influenced other languages. A good source for the data is Wikipedia[1](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_%28programming_language%29). Have fun! ---
**Author:** ![danmcb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@danmcb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/danmcb)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2009, 7:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/programming-language-history-visualization-219/174638/2 "2009-10-04T19:26:44Z")
There were no submissions to this week’s quiz. Jörg W Mittag shared several links to existing programming language history visualizations as well as alternate sources to gather the data from. If you are interested in solving the data gathering portion of this problem here is a good technique from Ilya G.'s blog: [Ruby Screen Scraper in 60 seconds](http://www.igvita.com/2007/02/04/ruby-screen-scraper-in-60-seconds/). Ruby Q. needs your help! [Please suggest quizzes often!](http://rubyquiz.strd6.com/suggestions) ---
**Author:** ![danmcb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@danmcb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/danmcb)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2009, 8:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/programming-language-history-visualization-219/174638/3 "2009-08-30T20:40:49Z")
Daniel M. wrote: > ## Programming Language History Visualization (#219) > > Olá Rubyists, > > This week’s quiz is to create a a visualization of the history of > programming languages. The output should be a directed graph with > edges indicating which languages influenced other languages. A good > source for the data is Wikipedia[1]. Here’s a couple of other ones: Encyclopedia of Programming Languages: [http://HoPL.Murdoch.Edu.Au/](http://HoPL.Murdoch.Edu.Au/) The famous Computer Languages Poster: [http://Levenez.Com/lang/](http://Levenez.Com/lang/) O’Reilly’s version of the above: [http://Wiki.OReillyNet.Com/languageposter/](http://Wiki.OReillyNet.Com/languageposter/) Diagram & History of Programming Languages: [http://Merd.SourceForge.Net/pixel/language-study/diagram.html](http://Merd.SourceForge.Net/pixel/language-study/diagram.html) (Nice extra for the Quiz: this one’s got machine-readable sources for the diagram!) And another one: [http://EPEMag.Com/zuse/Images/43ab.gif](http://EPEMag.Com/zuse/Images/43ab.gif) Mother Tongues of Computer Languages: [http://DigiBarn.Com/collections/posters/tongues/](http://DigiBarn.Com/collections/posters/tongues/) (This one is by far the least technically accurate. It misses or misconstrues several important connections, e.g. Modula-3 is not derived from Modula, it was an independent development that only uses the Modula _name_ (after asking Wirth for permission, of course); Netscape did not license the name Java from Sun to ride its hype, exactly the opposite is true: Sun paid (bribed?) Netscape to rename LiveScript to JavaScript in order to ride _its_ hype; C# is much less influenced by Java and C++ than this chart suggests, its major influences are Modula-2, Turbo Pascal and Delphi, and so on.) Programming Languages Genealogy Project: [http://Everything2.Com/?node\_id=858421](http://Everything2.Com/?node_id=858421) A Chronology of Influential Computer Languages: [http://People.KU.Edu/~nkinners/LangList/Extras/famous.htm](http://People.KU.Edu/~nkinners/LangList/Extras/famous.htm) Alphabetical list of programming languages: [http://SK.NVG.Org/lang/](http://SK.NVG.Org/lang/) History of Programming Languages: [http://EECS.UCF.Edu/~leavens/ComS541Fall97/hw-pages/history/](http://EECS.UCF.Edu/~leavens/ComS541Fall97/hw-pages/history/) Dictionary of Programming Languages: [http://CGIBin.Erols.Com/ziring/cgi-bin/cep/cep](http://CGIBin.Erols.Com/ziring/cgi-bin/cep/cep) And of course Wikipedia: [http://Wikipedia.Org/wiki/Category:Computer\_languages](http://Wikipedia.Org/wiki/Category:Computer_languages) jwm ---
**Author:** ![danmcb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@danmcb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/danmcb)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 12:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/programming-language-history-visualization-219/174638/4 "2009-10-05T00:25:15Z")
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Daniel M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Ruby Q. needs your help! [Please suggest quizzes often!][2] The ‘suggestions’ link really ought to be a lot more prominent! I’d go as far as to make it a fourth header on par with ‘home’ and ‘archives’ martin