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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BETA
NewBETA is a statically typed, pure object-oriented language from the Scandinavian school of Simula, which unifies classes and procedures into a single construct called the pattern.
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NewBCPL is a small, typeless systems language designed by Martin Richards in the 1960s, best remembered as the ancestor of B and C.
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Read more →The Casio BASIC dialect of the Casio Algebra FX 2.0 graphing calculator (1999), a small, calculator-style BASIC with single-letter variables, Locate-based text output and GetKey input, descended from the Casio BASIC that first appeared in 1985.
Read more →Charles Babbage's unbuilt 1837 design for a general-purpose, program-controlled mechanical computer — the first machine whose punched-card 'programs' included loops and conditional branching.
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