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History Of Programming Languages

We already know that programming language is a formal language designed to communicate instructions to a machine, particularly a computer.
Programming languages can be used to create programs that control the behavior of a machine and use for the build a Web Apps, computer software or any other apps.
Computer Programming enable users to write programs for specific algorithms. The first computer codes were specialized for their applications.
In the first decades of the 20th century, numerical calculations were based on decimal numbers.




There are total 256 Programming Languages but we know some programming languages that we are using regularly.
Look out on the below Infographic for History of Programming Languages.

History Of Programming Languages [Infographic] :




The first programming languages predate the modern computer.
The 19th century saw the invention of “programmable” looms and player piano scrolls, both of which implemented examples of domain-specific languages.

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Development Of Programming Language By Year :


1951 – Regional Assembly Language
1952 – Autocode
1954 – IPL (forerunner to LISP)
1955 – FLOW-MATIC (forerunner to COBOL)
1957 – FORTRAN (First compiler)
1957 – COMTRAN (forerunner to COBOL)
1958 – LISP
1958 – ALGOL 58
1959 – FACT (forerunner to COBOL)
1959 – COBOL
1959 – RPG
1962 – APL
1962 – Simula
1962 – SNOBOL
1963 – CPL (forerunner to C)
1964 – BASIC
1964 – PL/I
1966 – JOSS
1967 – BCPL (forerunner to C)
1968 – Logo
1969 – B (forerunner to C)
1970 – Pascal
1970 – Forth
1972 – C
1972 – Smalltalk
1972 – Prolog
1973 – ML
1975 – Scheme
1978 – SQL
1980 – C++ (as C with classes, name changed in July 1983)
1983 – Ada
1984 – Common Lisp
1984 – MATLAB
1985 – Eiffel
1986 – Objective-C
1986 – Erlang
1987 – Perl
1988 – Tcl
1988 – Mathematica
1989 – FL
1990 – Haskell
1991 – Python
1991 – Visual Basic
1993 – Ruby
1993 – Lua
1994 – CLOS (part of ANSI Common Lisp)
1995 – Java
1995 – Delphi (Object Pascal)
1995 – JavaScript
1995 – PHP
1996 – WebDNA
1997 – Rebol
1999 – D
2000 – ActionScript
2001 – C#
2001 – Visual Basic .NET
2002 – F#
2003 – Groovy
2003 – Scala
2007 – Clojure
2009 – Go
2011 – Dart
1951 to upto this year there are Totally 256 Programming Languages are Developed and that all are coming with the something new features.

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Credits:

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• Infographic Credits to Veracode.com
  
• Wikipedia
  
• D.DEVADOSS
  

[alok9shm]

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