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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GLPRO
NewJohn Bridges' Graphics Language for Professionals: the script-driven successor to GRASP that packed images, animation, sound, fonts and even a database into a single small executable for DOS and Windows multimedia titles of the late 1990s.
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NewGNU CHILL, the free compiler for the CCITT's telecom language CHILL: begun by Per Bothner at Cygnus Support in November 1992, donated to GCC in 1998, shipped in GCC 2.95, and removed in 2002.
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NewMark P. Jones's small, portable Haskell-like interpreter from Oxford - a favourite teaching system of the early 1990s and the testbed where constructor classes, multi-parameter type classes and do-notation were first implemented.
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NewFrank Ostrowski's fast, structured, line-number-free BASIC for the Atari ST: first shipped in June 1986, it became one of the platform's most popular BASICs, then moved to the Amiga, MS-DOS and Windows.
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NewGBASIC, Gianni Becattini's Z80 BASIC interpreter from Florence: introduced in 1983 as the graphics BASIC of the G5 kit computer, it later became a ROM-resident operating system and interpreter for industrial controllers.
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