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 …
BASIC
1964BASIC (Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming …
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, …
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1957Fortran (FORmula TRANslation) holds a unique place in computing history as the first widely adopted high-level …
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SETL
NewSETL (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
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NewScriptol is Denis Sureau's object-oriented, XML-aware scripting language that compiles to PHP, C++ or JavaScript rather than running on an interpreter of its own
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NewScriptBasic is Peter Verhas's free, LGPL-licensed BASIC interpreter written in C, designed to be embedded, extended with C modules, and run as a multi-threaded BASIC application server
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NewSELCOPY is a non-structured, interpreted procedural language from Compute (Bridgend) Ltd - first shipped in 1971 as an IBM mainframe SELect-and-COPY utility and still generally available and serviced more than fifty years later
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NewSelf is a prototype-based, dynamically typed object-oriented language and live programming environment created by David Ungar and Randall B. Smith in 1986-87, whose classless object model shaped JavaScript and NewtonScript and whose adaptive-optimizing virtual machine became the direct ancestor of Java's HotSpot JIT
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