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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NewChuck McManis's line-numbered BASIC-80-style dialect, implemented as a BASIC interpreter written entirely in Java and taught step by step in his 1997 JavaWorld "Java In Depth" series on building interpreters.
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NewBarbara Liskov's MIT research language that was the first implemented language to support abstract data types directly, and that introduced iterators, checked parameterized types and a disciplined exception mechanism.
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NewNantucket's compiler for the dBASE III language, which turned interpreted database programs into stand-alone DOS executables and grew into a language of its own before Computer Associates bought it in 1992.
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NewCraig Chambers' pure object-oriented research language from the University of Washington, which combined prototype-style objects with symmetric multiple dispatch, predicate objects and optional static typing, and served as the implementation language of the Vortex optimizing compiler.
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