History of Prog Language
History of Prog Language
of programming languages
Pioneers of programming
Charles Babbage:
Konrad Zuse:
Business-oriented computations
very strict program organization
poor control structures
elaborate data structures, record type
introduced for the first time.
Now unused.
Algol 68
Full orthogonality.
Completely unused.
Pascal
Relatively low-level.
Lisp
One of the earliest programming languages.
Text processing:
Perl
Python
Web programming
JavaScript
PHP
Languages that merge
programming paradigms
Object-oriented extensions: not only C++, but
dialects of Lisp (CLOS) or of Prolog (XPCE/Prolog,
Prolog++).
Logic programming combined with functional
programming (very clever, but only experimental).