The quirky personal homepages of programming language creators(breck.lol)
61 pointsby cjlm4 hours ago5 comments
  • newsomix9xl4 hours ago
    too many "$BROWSER can't open these pages" pages and one "no https page" page.
  • Grimeton4 hours ago
    If just someone would have come up with a way that allows one to visit these pages by a simple click of a button...

    You could just click on them and be there. Imagine how crazy that would be.

    • fwlr3 hours ago
      This page is just a bad[1] reskin of the data on http://pldb.info/lists/creators (which is arranged in the way you and I expect)

      1: “A horizontally scrolling list of text items at the top of the page” somehow manages to pick the worse option on every possible binary choice it gets to make.

      • userbinator3 hours ago
        Bad but presumably also "trendy and modern" as it requires JS and a substantially more powerful computer than just rendering an HTML table. The page you link to can be viewed in basically any browser, which is a good thing but not to those who want to turn the web into a walled garden.

        From the ones at the top I've looked at, the creators' pages themselves are also basic HTML; and furthermore, it's also telling that #1, the creator of JavaScript, chooses not to turn his site into a JS-only SPA.

    • kmoser4 hours ago
      It's easy with Firefox: Right-click frame, select This Frame > Open Frame in New Tab.

      But I get your point; there should be a one-click link to these pages, especially since some of them don't allow themselves to be opened in an iframe.

      • rob744 hours ago
        Ah, ok, that's why many are blank. I imagined that some of them may no longer be maintained, but then I actually tried one directly from pldb.info, and it worked. Well, typical I guess: vibe coded in 5 minutes and then uploaded without even testing it. Why am I even wasting my time writing a comment about this?
    • vbernat3 hours ago
      The page from which the data is sourced allows this: http://pldb.info/lists/creators.
      • whilenot-dev3 hours ago
        ...and I can click on a name in this list and get to that page. How could that a-tag not have been implemented?
    • exodustan hour ago
      You can though, by clicking the name in top left header of the currently open panel.
  • matheusmoreira3 hours ago
    How do I make it into the list? :)
  • travisgriggs3 hours ago
    No Alan Kay or Dan Ingalls. Surprised
  • joshdavham2 hours ago
    Is there actually a good reason for language creators’ web pages being so quirky(/ugly)?
    • dd8601fn2 hours ago
      I absolutely love that the CSS one is so f’d up that you can’t see their name.

      It’s so perfect that I wonder if it’s intentional.

    • esseph13 minutes ago
      It's a different type of beauty. The beauty is not the arrangement, it's what was never put into the code because it was never actually required.