Concepts of Programming Language - Chapter 2

Chapter 2 - Evolution of the Major Programming Languages

2.1 Zuse’s Plankalkül
2.2 Minimal Hardware Programming: Pseudocodes
2.3 The IBM 704 and Fortran
2.4 Functional Programming: LISP
2.5 The First Step Toward Sophistication: ALGOL 60
2.6 Computerizing Business Records: COBOL
2.7 The Beginnings of Timesharing: BASIC
2.8 Everything for Everybody: PL/I
2.9 Two Early Dynamic Languages: APL and SNOBOL
2.10 The Beginnings of Data Abstraction: SIMULA 67
2.11 Orthogonal Design: ALGOL 68
2.12 Some Early Descendants of the ALGOLs
2.13 Programming Based on Logic: Prolog
2.14 History's Largest Design Effort: Ada
2.15 Object-Oriented Programming: Smalltalk
2.16 Combining Imperative ad Object-Oriented Features: C++
2.17 An Imperative-Based Object-Oriented Language: Java
2.18 Scripting Languages
2.19 A C-Based Language for the New Millennium: C#
2.20 Markup/Programming Hybrid Languages

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