Wrong, the timeline C -> C++ -> Java -> Go is more or less what the industry went through (well, assuming it's getting to Go now and it'll catch on).
It correctly ignores the work on "countless other languages", because they didn't have any if at all traction to the trade, and don't matter much as far as 90% of programmers are concerned, and the few languages outside those that do (Perl, PHP, Ruby, C#, JS, Python, VB) are quite similar to the above.
It correctly ignores the work on "countless other languages", because they didn't have any if at all traction to the trade, and don't matter much as far as 90% of programmers are concerned, and the few languages outside those that do (Perl, PHP, Ruby, C#, JS, Python, VB) are quite similar to the above.