History of Programming Languages

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1843

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“The more I study, the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be.”

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1944-1945

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1949

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1957

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As FORTRAN was created for high-level scientific, mathematical, and statistical computations, it's still in use today in some of the world’s most advanced supercomputers.

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1959

Common Business Oriented Language ( COBOL ) is created. It's still used to this day primarily for banking and gamification systems.

1964

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1970

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1972

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Many of the current leading languages are derivatives of C, including: C#, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, and Python.

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