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Programming Languages
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Difference Engine
This machine was created by Charles Babbage. Because of this engine computers have required a means of instructing them to perform a specific task. -
ENIAC
The U.S government built this to replace the physical motion with electrical signals. -
John Von Neumann
He worked at the Institute for Advanced Study and developed two important concepts that effected the path of computer programming languages. They languages were "shared program technique" and "conditional controller transfer." -
The Short Code language
It was the first computer language for electronic devices and it required the programmer to change it's statements into 0's and 1's by hand. -
Grace Hopper
She wrote the first complier. A compiler is a program that turns the language’s statements into 0’s and 1’s for the computer to understand. -
FORTRAN
The first major languages appeared in the form of Fortran. It stands for FORmula TRANslating system. -
John McCarthy of MIT
He created the List processing Language. It is the Algol language for science. -
COBOL
Business computing took off and COBOL was devreloped. It was designed as a language for businessmen. -
BASIC LANGUAGE
It was developed by John Kemey and Thomas Kurtz.BASIC is a very limited language and was designed for non-computer science people. -
Pascal
This language was created by Niklaus Wirth. It was a good teaching tool and it combined the best features of COBOL, FORTRAN, and ALGOL. -
Object Oriented Program (OOP)
It was being deveopled in the late 1970's and early 1980's. With this program, Objects are pieces of data that can be packaged and manipulated by the programmer -
C
Developed by Dennis Ritchie. It was built to be fast and powerful while also hard to read. It had many similarities to PASCAL. It was later deveolped with extentions know as 'C with classes" -
PERL
It was developed by Larry Wall. PERL is also known as the “duct tape of the Internet,” because it is most often used as the engine for a web interface or in scripts that modify configuration files. -
Java
Java was created because Sun Microsystems decided that interactive TV needed a portable language. Java became the language of the future.
