Assembly
1949Assembly language is the thin layer between human-readable code and raw machine instructions. Every program, regardless …
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// 1957 - FORTRAN
WRITE(*,*) 'Hello, World!'
// 1972 - C
printf("Hello, World!\n");
// 1995 - Java
System.out.println("Hello!");
// 2015 - Rust
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Java
1995Java is one of the most influential programming languages ever created. Designed with the philosophy of “Write …
Carbon
2022Carbon is an experimental programming language designed at Google as a potential successor to C++. Announced publicly in …
C
1972C is arguably the most influential programming language ever created. Developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs, …
Fortran
1957Fortran (FORmula TRANslation) holds a unique place in computing history as the first widely adopted high-level …
BASIC
1964BASIC (Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming …
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GASOIL
NewA 2009 postfix esoteric language by the Esolang wiki user Morex. Programs are loaded onto a program stack and used up as they run, so there is no instruction pointer and every loop is recursion.
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NewLode Vandevenne's 2004 two-dimensional esoteric language in the Befunge tradition, unusual for its pixel graphics, mouse input and text-input commands, which made games and Mandelbrot renderers possible.
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NewThe General Activity Simulation Program: a FORTRAN subroutine package for discrete-event simulation that Philip Kiviat began at U.S. Steel in 1961, later extended by Alan Pritsker into GASP II, GASP IV and SLAM.
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NewGABasic, Gabriel Fernandez's 2000 hobbyist BASIC compiler that turned QuickBASIC-style programs into 32-bit protected-mode DOS executables via NASM and the WDOSX extender.
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NewFranzBasic, Zimmer Informatik's German structured BASIC for MS-DOS from 1989-90, with a mouse-driven editor, built-in dBase III commands and a freely distributable runtime module.
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