Assembly
1949Assembly language is the thin layer between human-readable code and raw machine instructions. Every program, regardless …
Unearthing programming languages from the popular to the obscure
Discover how languages old and new still run on modern machines — macOS, Windows, and Docker. From FORTRAN to Rust, every language has a story to tell.
// 1957 - FORTRAN
WRITE(*,*) 'Hello, World!'
// 1972 - C
printf("Hello, World!\n");
// 1995 - Java
System.out.println("Hello!");
// 2015 - Rust
println!("Hello, World!");Start your journey through programming history
Assembly language is the thin layer between human-readable code and raw machine instructions. Every program, regardless …
Java is one of the most influential programming languages ever created. Designed with the philosophy of “Write …
BASIC (Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming …
Carbon is an experimental programming language designed at Google as a potential successor to C++. Announced publicly in …
C is arguably the most influential programming language ever created. Developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs, …
Fortran (FORmula TRANslation) holds a unique place in computing history as the first widely adopted high-level …
Recent explorations and discoveries
SmallBASIC is a free, GPL-licensed BASIC interpreter written in C that Nicholas Christopoulos began in 2000 because his new Palm IIIx shipped without a decent calculator - a QBasic-flavoured language small enough for a handheld that, a quarter of a century later, is still being released for Windows, Linux, Android and a Teensy microcontroller
Read more →SheerPower (originally SheerPower 4GL, and marketed since about 2020 simply as Sheerpower) is the Windows descendant of Touch Technologies' INTOUCH 4GL for OpenVMS: a BASIC-shaped, database-centric fourth-generation language with a bundled record engine, a bundled web server and a patented decimal math package, given away free by its Southern California vendor for more than twenty years
Read more →Sleep is a small Perl-inspired scripting language for the Java platform, written by Raphael Mudge over a weekend in April 2002 so that his Java IRC client could have a scripting engine - and now best known as the substrate of Aggressor Script, the language red teams write inside Cobalt Strike
Read more →SimTalk is the object-oriented, event-driven language embedded in the German plant-simulation system that began life as Fraunhofer IPA's SIMPLE, was sold commercially as SIMPLE++ by AESOP GmbH from 1992, and is today Siemens Tecnomatix Plant Simulation - a language almost nobody writes outside a factory model, and one that hundreds of manufacturing engineers write every working day
Read more →SETL (SET Language) is a very high-level programming language designed by Jacob T. Schwartz at NYU around 1969-1970, in which finite sets, tuples and maps over arbitrary domains are the primitive data types - the language that produced the first validated Ada compiler and, by way of ABC, gave Python its sets, dictionaries and comprehensions
Read more →SIMSCRIPT is the discrete-event simulation language conceived by Harry Markowitz, Bernard Hausner and Herbert Karr at the RAND Corporation in 1962 - the language that gave programming the entity-attribute-set world view, taught Kristen Nygaard's group about pointers on the way to Simula, and still runs the U.S. military's theater-level wargames six decades later
Read more →Every language guide includes working code examples, Docker images for instant setup, and progressive tutorials from Hello World to advanced topics.