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History of Programming Languages

The document outlines the history and development of many important programming languages from 1842 to today. It discusses the first programming language created by Ada Lovelace in 1842-1843, as well as early assembly languages from 1949. Many widely used languages like FORTRAN, COBOL, BASIC, Pascal, C, and SQL were developed between the 1950s-1970s. More recent influential languages include Smalltalk, MATLAB, Objective-C, C++, and Perl. The document provides brief descriptions and origins for several dozen historically significant programming languages.

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History of Programming Languages

The document outlines the history and development of many important programming languages from 1842 to today. It discusses the first programming language created by Ada Lovelace in 1842-1843, as well as early assembly languages from 1949. Many widely used languages like FORTRAN, COBOL, BASIC, Pascal, C, and SQL were developed between the 1950s-1970s. More recent influential languages include Smalltalk, MATLAB, Objective-C, C++, and Perl. The document provides brief descriptions and origins for several dozen historically significant programming languages.

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HISTORY OF

PROGRAMMING
LANGUAGES
1842-1843
FIRST COMPUTER PROGRAMAMMING
LANGUAGE
• Created by ADA LOVELACE
• Algorithm for the Analytical Engine: Created by Ada Lovelace for
Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine to compute Bernoulli numbers, it’s
considered to be the first computer programming language.
1949

• 1949: Assembly Language: First widely used in the 


Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator, assembly language is a
type of low-level computer programming language that simplifies the
language of machine code, the specific instructions needed to tell the
computer what to do.
• 1952: Autocode: Autocode was a generic term for a family of early
computer programming languages. The first was developed by Alick
Glennie for the Mark 1 computer at the University of Manchester in the
U.K. Some consider autocode to be the first compiled computer
programming language, meaning that it can be translated directly into
machine code using a program called a compiler.
• 1957: Fortran: A computer programming language created by John
Backus for complicated scientific, mathematical, and statistical work,
Fortran stands for Formula Translation. It is the one of the oldest
computer programming languages still used today.
• 1958: Algol: Created by a committee for scientific use, Algol stands
for Algorithmic Language. Algol served as a starting point in the
development of languages such as Pascal, C, C++, and Java.
• 1959: COBOL: Created by Dr. Grace Murray Hopper as a computer
programming language that could run on all brands and types of
computers, COBOL stands for COmmon Business Oriented Language.
It is used in ATMs, credit card processing, telephone systems, hospital
and government computers, automotive systems, and traffic signals. In
the movie The Terminator, pieces of COBOL source code were used in
the Terminator’s vision display.
• 1964: BASIC: Developed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at
Dartmouth College so that students who did not have a strong
technical or mathematical understanding could still use computers, it
stands for Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. A
modified version of BASIC was written by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. This
was to become the first Microsoft product.
• 1970: Pascal: Developed by Niklaus Wirth, Pascal was named in honor
of the French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Blaise Pascal.
It is easy to learn and was originally created as a tool for teaching
computer programming. Pascal was the main language used for
software development in Apple’s early years.
YEAR OF LANGUAGES

• 1972: Smalltalk: Developed by Alan Kay, Adele Goldberg, and Dan Ingalls at Xerox Palo Alto
Research Center, Smalltalk allowed computer programmers to modify code on the fly and also
introduced other aspects now present in common computer programming languages including
Python, Java, and Ruby.
• 1972: C: Developed by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs, C is considered by many to be the first high-level
language. A high-level computer programming language is closer to human language and more
removed from the machine code. C was created so that an operating system called Unix could be
used on many different types of computers. It has influenced many other languages, including Ruby,
C#, Go, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, and Python.
• 1972: SQL: SQL was developed by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce at IBM. SQL stands
for Structured Query Language. It is used for viewing and changing information that is stored in
databases. SQL uses command sentences called queries to add, remove, or view data.
FURTHER EXTENTIONS

• 1978: MATLAB: Developed by Cleve Moler. MATLAB stands for Matrix Laboratory. It is one of the best
computer programming languages for writing mathematical programs and is mainly used in
mathematics, research, and education. It can also be used to create two- and three-dimensional
graphics.
• 1983: Objective-C: Created by Brad Cox and Tom Love, Objective-C is the main computer
programming language used when writing software for macOS and iOS, Apple’s operating systems.
• 1983: C++: C++ is an extension of the C language and was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup. It is one
of the most widely used languages in the world. C++ is used in game engines and high-performance
software like Adobe Photoshop. Most packaged software is still written in C++.
• 1987: Perl: Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a scripting language designed for
text editing. Its purpose was to make report processing easier. It is now widely used for many
purposes, including Linux system administration, Web development, and network programming.

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