19 Generations of Application Development

In this lengthy but light-hearted article, InfoWorld’s Peter Wayner traces nineteen “generations” of computer programmers. Beginning with the punch-card programmers of the 1960s, he traces the rise of various types of developers, documenting their programming language of choice and skillsets, as well as taking a humorous look at their favorite clothing, cars, music, etc.

For the record, his 19 generations include the following:

1. Punch-card programmers
2. Space Shuttle programmers
3. Cray programmers
4. Cobol programmers
5. Basic programmers
6. C programmers
7. C++ programmers
8. Objective-C programmers (first generation)
9. Perl programmers
10. PHP programmers
11. Java programmers
12. C# programmers
13. JavaScript programmers (first generation)
14. Ruby on Rails programmers
15. Objective-C programmers (second generation)
16. JavaScript programmers (second generation)
17. Haskell programmers
18. Hadoop programmers
19. Node.js programmers

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