Lesson: History of Programming Languages

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• Programming Land MOO Entry Way
• Language Foyer
• Background topics suitable for any programming language
• History of Programming Languages

• Low Level Languages(#642)
  • Machine Language(#1709)
    • Assembly Language(#1710)
• FORTRAN(#871)
  • After FORTRAN(#1711)
    • COmmon Business Oriented Language(#1712)
      • COBOL'S Beginning(#2065)
        • COBOL'S Design(#2069)
          • COBOL'S Contributions(#2070)
            • Final Verdict(#2071)
    • FORTRAN and Standardization(#1713)
    • Descendants of FORTRAN(#1714)
      • ALGOL 60(#1715)
        • ALGOL 68(#1719)
          • Pascal(#1720)
            • Ada(#1721)
      • BASIC(#1716)
        • Programming Language I(#1718)
          • C(#1717)
            • C++ Language(#1722)
              • Java Programming Language(#1723)
  • Alternate History of the FORTRAN Family of Languages(#2020)
    • FORTRAN I Background(#2104)
      • FORTRAN II, III, IV and FORTRAN 66(#2105)
        • FORTRAN 77(#2106)
          • Fortran 90 standard(#2107)
            • FORTRAN Quiz(#2108)
• alternative: LISP(#1708)

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