Alan Kay stated in one of his talks that there was a paper in 1968 that listen at least 3000 programming languages that were known in the year 1968.What would be an unsientific but educated guess on the number of programming languages that existed up till now?(I.e., this number would assume that if a programming language ever existed it is counted in the total number of today)
In 1968 there were more than 3000 programming languages known, how large would this number be today?
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