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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IITRAN
NewA student-oriented algebraic language from the Illinois Institute of Technology, first run on an IBM 7040 around 1964 and redesigned for System/360. IITRAN gave beginners PL/I-like syntax, forgiving input and detailed diagnostics, and it reached Chicago-area high schools over teletype links
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NewPeter Robertson's portable reimplementation of Edinburgh IMP, first documented in December 1977. IMP77 paired an ALGOL-like systems language with a machine-independent intermediate code, I-code, which carried it from PDP-11s and Interdata minis to the VAX, ARM and, decades later, x86
Read more →IBM's compiled BASIC for the 4680 Store System, built on Digital Research's CBASIC compiler, LINK-86 and LIB-86. It was the main language for point-of-sale terminal and store controller applications on the 4680 and its successor, the 4690 Operating System
Read more →The assembly language of IBM's System/360, System/370 and System/390 mainframes: one upward-compatible language, defined in 1964, whose base registers, packed decimal and macro-driven system interface are still read by IBM's assembler today.
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NewPyxia Development's shareware BASIC for 32-bit Windows, first released in July 2001, whose Standard and Professional editions built stand-alone GUI, DirectX and console programs and whose dialect lives on in Emergence BASIC (IWBasic) and Creative BASIC
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