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The ENIAC, short for Electrical Numerical Integrator and Calculator, was developed by the US Government to fill the increasing need for computer capacity to calculate trajectory tables and other essential data
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John von Neumann begins development of two important concepts that would directly affect the path of computer programming languages forever
The first concept, known as "shared-program technique"
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Grace Hopper develops the first computer compiler which is called A-0, in 1951
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FORTRAN or FORmula TRANslating system was invented
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John McCarthy of MIT creates the LISt Processing (LISP) language
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COBOL was developed to fill the need that FORTRAN could not
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BASIC or Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code was made
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