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  • Is there actually a good reason for language creators’ web pages being so quirky(/ugly)?
    by joshdavham
  • 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.
    by esseph
  • Old timers don't use CSS frameworks and made it work for their IBM CRT.
    by opengrass
  • 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.

    by dd8601fn
  • No Alan Kay or Dan Ingalls. Surprised
    by travisgriggs
  • Or Jose Valim
    by travisgriggs
  • Original list [1] has both.

    Shitty vibe-coded half-functioning copy hasn't...

    [1] http://pldb.info/lists/creators

    by dirkt
  • The best one I saw, you clicked country flags, and for each flag it showed a picture of him in that country with the homepage translated. But I forget who that was.
    by opengrass
  • How do I make it into the list? :)
    by matheusmoreira
  • Create a programming language.
    by userbinator
  • 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.

    by Grimeton
  • You can though, by clicking the name in top left header of the currently open panel.
    by exodust
  • The page from which the data is sourced allows this: http://pldb.info/lists/creators.
    by vbernat
  • 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.

    by kmoser
  • 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.

    by fwlr
  • too many "$BROWSER can't open these pages" pages and one "no https page" page.
    by newsomix9xl