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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OPL
NewPsion's BASIC-like Organiser Programming Language, which took users from pocket organisers of the 1980s to Symbian smartphones, and could be written on the device itself
Read more →The 1992 fourth release of Software Products International's integrated DOS suite, whose relational database carried Programmer (also called PRO), a block-structured language for building windowed business applications
Read more →SQS, the line-by-line mission scripting language of Bohemia Interactive's 2001 military simulator, ancestor of the SQF language used across the Arma series
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NewThe Optimized Applicative Language from TU Berlin: a strict, purely functional language that merges algebraic specification with applicative programming, compiled to C by a compiler written in OPAL itself
Read more →DECTPU as it exists on OpenVMS: the text-processing language behind the EDIT command and the EVE editor, carried from VAX to Alpha, and on to IA-64 and x86-64 long after its last version number.
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NewThe English-like, event-driven scripting language of Asymetrix ToolBook, Paul Allen's 1990 answer to HyperCard for Microsoft Windows
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