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Pre-1900 AD and post-1000 AD
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.
Source: http://library.thinkquest.org/11309/data/history.htm
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Between 1900 and 1960 AD
Late 1930s diferent ways of doing punched-card machine were created and were trust-worthy. -
Between 1900 and 1960 AD
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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Between 1900 and 1960 AD
The first FORTRAN compiler in April 1957 was invented by John Backus and others.
Source: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~shallit/Courses/134/history.html -
Between 1960 and 1970 AD
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 -
Between 1960 and 1970 AD
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. -
Between 1970 and 1990 AD
C++ is a improvement of it’s the C Programming Language.
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Between 1970 and 1990 AD
An important new trend in language design focused on larger programming for large-scale systems through the use of modules.
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Between 1970 and 1990 AD
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 -
Between 1990 AD and Present Day
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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Between 1990 AD and Present Day
Visual Basic was released In 1991.
