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ENIAC
The first language, written purely in binary code, and the one that subsequently birthed Assembly code -
A-0
Written by Grace Hopper, it later allowed for the creation of Flowmatic and Cobol languages. -
Fortran
FORmula TRANslator written by John Backus was an ideal language for scientific computing, but wasn't a well structured language. Algol was introduced later and was the first one to add beginning and end statements. -
BASIC
Kemery and Kurtz created Beginners All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, which mixed Fortran and Algol for a perfect beginners' language -
BCPL
Martin Richards wrote this language to create compilers -
Ken Thompson created B from BCPL
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B has developed into C
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1983
Written by Bjarne Stroustrup it's still one of the most popular languages to date -
Microsoft turned Basic into VisualBasic
Visual C++ and C# were developed around the same time -
Java
Developed by Sun and based on C++, Java is good for running internet applications using intermediate code and a run-time environment -
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Data driven applications surfacing
Perl, Python, PHP and Ruby as examples