| ▲ | The quirky personal homepages of programming language creators(breck.lol) |
| 59 points by cjlm 3 hours ago | 16 comments |
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| ▲ | Grimeton 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| 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. |
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| ▲ | fwlr an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | 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. | | |
| ▲ | userbinator an hour ago | parent [-] | | 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. |
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| ▲ | vbernat 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | The page from which the data is sourced allows this: http://pldb.info/lists/creators. | | |
| ▲ | whilenot-dev an hour ago | parent [-] | | ...and I can click on a name in this list and get to that page. How could that a-tag not have been implemented? |
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| ▲ | kmoser 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | 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. | | |
| ▲ | rob74 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | 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? |
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| ▲ | joshdavham an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Is there actually a good reason for language creators’ web pages being so quirky(/ugly)? |
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| ▲ | dd8601fn 35 minutes ago | parent [-] | | 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. |
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| ▲ | matheusmoreira 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| How do I make it into the list? :) |
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| ▲ | travisgriggs 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| No Alan Kay or Dan Ingalls. Surprised |
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| ▲ | newsomix9xl 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| too many "$BROWSER can't open these pages" pages and one "no https page" page. |
