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1995Java is one of the most influential programming languages ever created. Designed with the philosophy of “Write …
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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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Assembly
1949Assembly language is the thin layer between human-readable code and raw machine instructions. Every program, regardless …
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 …
COBOL
1959COBOL (COmmon Business-Oriented Language) is one of the oldest programming languages still in active production use. …
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