string of characters on Larry Wall's monitor isn't random but an example program in a programming language that God wants
Erlang is the first language to properly execute a bullet-proof thread safe hot updating seamlessly distributed super-scalable VM which is destined to rule the web,
she doesn't have any actual computers to run her code. Enterprise architects will later relearn her techniques in order to program in UML.
All my years of obsessive, insular study, and the sacrifice of a well-rounded personality in favour of a detailed grasp of programming paradigms, suddenly became worthwhile.
Every language[n] seems to be influenced by that great language[n-2] but swears it has never heard of that pathetic language[n-1].
not one of them mentioning Dijkstra being sensible and just using a typewriter
"No matter how much kung fu you know, someone else always knows more."
I think you forgot Plankalkül by Konrad Zuse, that was published in 1948,
A whole page of programming in jokes, many are both original and funny if you know the history. You only have to have written a "Hello World" program, or read a language war on Usenet, to understand what is going on here. Some of the dates are deliberately wrong.
Question: "What I'm wondering is why there hasn't been a rush of developers who would like to write powerful Apple (Cocoa) applications, and quickly offer native Unix/Linux ports as well."
No answers yet - I don't think Mr. Williams followed through with this interesting idea.