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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6502 machine code as Apple II and Apple II Plus owners wrote it: hex bytes typed into the ROM Monitor, calls to firmware routines like COUT at $FDED, and memory-mapped soft switches, from 1977 into the 1980s.
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Read more →Steve Wozniak's hand-assembled, integer-only BASIC for the Apple-1: a 4K interpreter shipped free on cassette in 1976, the first piece of software Apple sold and the direct ancestor of the Apple II's Integer BASIC.
Read more →François Lionet's 1992 overhaul of AMOS BASIC for the Commodore Amiga - a games-and-multimedia BASIC with more than seven hundred commands, a reconfigurable editor, on-line help, a program monitor, ARexx support and its own dialogue-box language.
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NewWouter van Oortmerssen's Amiga E — a fast, loosely typed systems language written as one enormous 68000 assembly source file, mixing procedural code with objects, exceptions, Lisp cells and unification, and one of the most popular ways to program the Amiga in the 1990s.
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