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| 1893: | Ada Lovelace discovers Charles Babbage |
| 1895: | Ada Lovelace discovers the calculator is more fun than Charles Babbage |
| 1950: | COBOL is born; world celebrates |
| 1953: | FORTRAN is born; revenge on COBOL |
| 1957: | Death of COBOL predicted |
| 1963: | BASIC is born; a language for people who do counting on their fingers |
| 1965: | Death of FORTRAN predicted |
| 1966: | C is on the horizon |
| 1973: | Death of COBOL predicted |
| 1974: | Pascal is born; competition with C |
| 1977: | C is born; revenge on FORTRAN |
| 1979: | Ada is born; revenge on Charles Babbage |
| 1982: | Death of FORTRAN predicted |
| 1985: | Death of Charles Babbage predicted |
| 1986: | Death of COBOL predicted |
| 1991: | Charles Babbage legally pronounced dead |
| 1993: | Death of BASIC predicted |
| 1997: | merging of C and C++ into new language D |
| 2001: | dark monolith discovered on Jupiter moon; determined to be an old COBOL card deck for an accounts receivable program |
| 2002: | COBOL reborn as COBOL++ |
| 2010: | Death of Pascal predicted |
| ... |
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