18 comments

  • newsomix9xl 10 hours ago ago

    too many "$BROWSER can't open these pages" pages and one "no https page" page.

  • Grimeton 11 hours ago 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.

    • fwlr 10 hours ago 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.

      • userbinator 9 hours ago 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.

    • kmoser 10 hours ago 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.

      • rob74 10 hours ago 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?

    • vbernat 10 hours ago ago

      The page from which the data is sourced allows this: http://pldb.info/lists/creators.

      • whilenot-dev 10 hours ago 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?

    • exodust 8 hours ago ago

      You can though, by clicking the name in top left header of the currently open panel.

  • matheusmoreira 10 hours ago ago

    How do I make it into the list? :)

  • travisgriggs 10 hours ago ago

    No Alan Kay or Dan Ingalls. Surprised

  • joshdavham 9 hours ago ago

    Is there actually a good reason for language creators’ web pages being so quirky(/ugly)?

    • dd8601fn 9 hours ago 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.

    • esseph 7 hours ago 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.