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In 1 Jan 1690, Leibniz invented a machine that could do basic math. The instructions were programmed into the machine. The only downside to the machine is that you couldn’t change the instructions without changing the entire machine.
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Late 1930s diferent ways of doing punched-card machine were created and were trust-worthy.
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Howard Aiken, with the help of engineers at IBM, made a large automatic digital computer. They named the computer the Harvard Mark I.They programmed it by using pre-punched paper tape.
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The first FORTRAN compiler in April 1957 was invented by John Backus and others.
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A new programming language was invented called the BASIC developed by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz in 1964. Source: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~shallit/Courses/134/history.html
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An important programming language was developed by Brian Kernighan and Ritchie called C. Source: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~shallit/Courses/134/history.html
LISP, a list-processing language for ai programming, was invented by John McCarthy. -
C++ is a improvement of it’s the C Programming Language.
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An important new trend in language design focused on larger programming for large-scale systems through the use of modules.
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Larry Wall is the original developer of Perl which was created in 1987 as a simple scripting language to make report processing less of a task. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl
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The Internet created an opportunity for new languages to be used. For example the Java programming language that rose to popularity because of its early work with the Netscape Navigator web browser.
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Visual Basic was released In 1991.
