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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 …
BASIC
1964BASIC (Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming …
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, …
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1957Fortran (FORmula TRANslation) holds a unique place in computing history as the first widely adopted high-level …
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NewSperry Univac's report-processing system and 'run' language from the Roseville, Minnesota computer factory - a user-driven 4GL built on an electronic filing cabinet of reports that Sperry called its most successful software product and that survives today as Unisys Business Information Server (BIS)
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NewThe BASIC-derived, object-oriented scripting language Lotus built for Improv in 1993 and then made the common programming language of Lotus Notes and SmartSuite - a Visual Basic look-alike whose real power was its object model for documents, databases, and enterprise data
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NewA procedural database language recorded as appearing in 1977 and now dormant - and a case study in a language whose only surviving trace is its catalog entry, hidden behind one of the most overloaded words in computing
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