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The Evolution of Programming Languages

Programming Language is indeed the fundamental unit of today’s tech world. It is


considered as the set of commands and instructions that we give to the machines to
perform a particular task. For example, if you give some set of instructions to add two
numbers then the machine will do it for you and tell you the correct answer
accordingly. But do you know that Programming Languages are having a long and
rich history of their evolution? And with a similar concern, here in this article, we’ll
take a look at the evolution of Programming Languages over the period.

In the computer world, we have about 500+ programming languages with having their
own syntax and features. And if you type who’s the father of the computer, then the
search engine will show you the result as to Charles Babbage but the father of the
computer didn’t write the first code. It was Ada Lovelace who has written the first-
ever computer programming language and the year was 1883.

1883: The Journey starts from here…!!

 In the early days, Charles Babbage had made the device, but he was confused
about how to give instructions to the machine, and then Ada Lovelace wrote
the instructions for the analytical engine.
 The device was made by Charles Babbage and the code was written by Ada
Lovelace for computing Bernoulli’s number.
 First time in history that the capability of computer devices was judged.
1949: Assembly Language

 It is a type of low-level language.


 It mainly consists of instructions (kind of symbols) that only machines could
understand.
 In today’s time also assembly language is used in real-time programs such as
simulation flight navigation systems and medical equipment eg – Fly-by-wire
(FBW) systems.
 It is also used to create computer viruses.
1952: Auto code

 Developed by Alick Glennie.


 The first compiled computer programming language.
 COBOL and FORTRAN are the languages referred to as Autocode.
1957: FORTRAN

 Developers are John Backus and IBM.


 It was designed for numeric computation and scientific computing.
 Softwarefor NASA probes voyager-1 (space probe) and voyager-2 (space
probe) was originally written in FORTRAN 5.
1958: ALGOL

 ALGOL stands for Algorithmic Language.


 The initial phase of the most popular programming languages of C, C++, and
JAVA.
It was also the first language the nested function and has a simple syntax than
FORTRAN.

1959: COBOL

 In 1997, 80% of the world’s business ran on Cobol.


 The US internal revenue service scrambled its path to COBOL-based IMF
(individual master file) in order to pay the tens of millions of payments
mandated by the coronavirus aid, relief, and economic security.
1964: BASIC

 Itstands for beginners All-purpose symbolic instruction code.


 In 1991 Microsoft released Visual Basic, an updated version of Basic
 The first microcomputer version of Basic was co-written by Bill Gates, Paul
Allen, and Monte Davidoff for their newly-formed company, Microsoft.
1972: C

 It is a general-purpose, procedural programming language and the most popular


programming language till now.
 All the code that was previously written in assembly language gets replaced by
the C language like operating system, kernel, and many other applications.
 It can be used in implementing an operating system, embedded system, and
also on the website using the Common Gateway Interface (CGI).
 C is the mother of almost all higher-level programming languages like C#, D,
Go, Java, JavaScript, Limbo, LPC, Perl, PHP, Python, and Unix’s C shell.
Some other programming languages that are popular among programmers are listed
below.
YEAR OF PROGRAMMING
FACTS
RELEASE LANGUAGES

SQL was developed at IBM by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F.


1972 SQL Boyce. The earlier name was SEQUEL (Structured English Query
Language).
YEAR OF PROGRAMMING
FACTS
RELEASE LANGUAGES

It stands for MATrix LABoratory. It is used for matrix manipulation,


1978 MATLAB
implementation of an algorithm, and creation of a user interface.

C++ is the fastest high-level programming language.


1983 Objective-C, C++
Earlier, Apple Inc uses Objective-C to make applications.

1990 Haskell It is a purely functional programming language.

The language is very easy to understand. Famous language among


1991 Python
data scientists and analysts.

JAVA is everywhere. JAVA is the platform-independent


language.

PHP is a scripting language mainly used in web programming


1995 JAVA, PHP, JavaScript for connecting databases.

JavaScript enables interactive web pages. JS is the most popular


programming language. JS is famous for building a web
application. It makes our page interactive.

C#(C-sharp) is mainly used for making games. Unity engine uses C# for
2000 C#
making amazing games for all platforms

GO language is developed in Google by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike,


2009 GO
and Ken Thompson.

Kotlin is developed by JetBrains. It is used for making an android


2011 Kotlin
application.

Swift language is developed by Apple Inc. It is a general-purpose


2014 Swift
programming language.

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