Posted on 5/9/2009 by Snapping Linkslinks for 2009-05-09 One Div Zero: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages "John Backus and IBM create FORTRAN. There's nothing funny about IBM or FORTRAN. It is a syntax error to write FORTRAN while not wearing a blue tie." 🙂 (tags: history funny misc_tech)