Every Language Fixes Something

[pne]

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Every Language Fixes Something

(Which computer language inherits from which, and why they made a new language instead of using the original one)

Comments

[asciident]

Maybe I'm bad at reading charts, but aren't the arrows pointing the wrong way? Or maybe I'm just reading it backwards. (It makes mose sense to me to start with the oldest ones and go forward, rather than the newest ones going backward...)

Nifty, nonetheless. :)

[pne.livejournal.com]

*nods* I was confused at first, too.

I guess it's some kind of weird object-oriented inheritance convention (in some schools of design) to point arrows from derived class to base.

[fweebles.livejournal.com]

It looks a lot like UML (http://www.uml.org/), where a filled-in arrow indicates a superclass (base class).

UML

[pne.livejournal.com]

Ah, thanks.

UML is one of those topics I've been meaning to have a look at for quite a while but have not done so yet.

I'm evil

[bicoherent.livejournal.com]

Someone should draw another diagram that goes `backwards', showing the problems in Java which C++ `fixes', etc. :-)

Re: I'm evil

[pne.livejournal.com]

Yes, except that that makes about as much sense as top-quoting, given that most people experience time from past to future and not the other way around.

Re: I'm evil

[bicoherent.livejournal.com]

Well, it can at least remind people that new isn't better.