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Ada, Countess of Lovelace, develops an algorithm for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine. The algorithm computed Bernoulli numbers and made Ada the world’s first computer programmer.
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Plankalkul, a language designed for engineering a mathematical work, is developed by Konrad Zuse.
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John Von Neumann, working at the Institute for Advanced Study, conceived of two ideas which changed the course of computer programming. The one idea was that simple hardware should be controlled by complex instructions — that the “program” should be changeable without changing the hardware.
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The first block-structured language, ALGOL 60, is made available.
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APL60, a Terminal System for APL, is released.
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Work begins on LOGO.
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The text-processing language Awk is released. It is named after its developers: Aho, Weinberger, and Kernighan.
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The first implementation of C++ appears.
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The wreck of the Titanic is found, using a submarine controlled by Forth
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Perl is invented
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Fortran 90 is released. Besides several new features, this version also changes the spelling away from ALL-CAPS.
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◾HTML is described for the first time, by Tim Berners-Lee.
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Python is invented.
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◾CoffeeScript, an expansion of JavaScript that adds concepts borrowed from Ruby and Python, is released.
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Google releases Dart.
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Apple releases Swift, based on Objective-C.
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