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by mastermojo 4073 days ago
This infographic is pretty poorly designed. There are some icons that I don't recognize (like the 1993 circle+R and the 2005 flask). Google told me the (R) icon is actually the R language. Still don't know what the flask is.
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On top of that, the colors are so similar that the graphs where you have to identify which color corresponds to which language are basically unintelligible. The designer desperately needs to read a Tufte book.
After some googlefu* it turned out the logo belongs to Puppet Labs which has a 2005 Puppet language.

From wikipedia:

Puppet is a tool designed to manage the configuration of Unix-like and Microsoft Windows systems declaratively. The user describes system resources and their state, either using Puppet's declarative language or a Ruby DSL (domain-specific language). This information is stored in files called "Puppet manifests". Puppet discovers the system information via a utility called Facter, and compiles the Puppet manifests into a system-specific catalog containing resources and resource dependency, which are applied against the target systems. Any actions taken by Puppet are then reported.

Puppet consists of a custom declarative language to describe system configuration, which can be either applied directly on the system, or compiled into a catalog and distributed to the target system via client–server paradigm (using a REST API), and the agent uses system specific providers to enforce the resource specified in the manifests. The resource abstraction layer enables administrators to describe the configuration in high-level terms, such as users, services and packages without the need to specify OS specific commands (such as rpm, yum, apt).

Puppet is model-driven, requiring limited programming knowledge to use.

* Cut image into Gimp, cut little icon, export, google the image.

I've never understood why infographics are so popular on the web. The power of the web is that you don't have to present ideas as static images with no interactivity or extensibility.
Dang, I really thought http://elixir-lang.org/ was that popular.
Someday :)