PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES (assignment)

• FORTRAN (1956)


  First successful programming language; used for solving engineering and scientific problems (year?)
• COBOL (1959)


  Minicomputer and mainframe computer applications in business (year?)
• ALGOL (1960)


  Especially useful in high-level mathematics (year?)
• BASIC (1964)


  Most frequently used with microcomputers and minicomputers; science, engineering, and business applications (year?)
• 1. BCPL (1965)

  2. B (1969)


  Development-stage language (year/s?)
• C (1970)


  Combines the power of assembly language with the ease of use and portability of high-level language (year?)
• Pascal (1971)


  High-level, general-purpose language; used for teaching structured programming (year?)
• ADA (1975)


  Based on Pascal; used by the U.S. Department of Defense (year?)
• VisiCalc (1978)


  First electronic spreadsheet (year?)
• C++ (1980)


  Response to complexity of C; incorporates object-oriented programming methods (year?)
• QuickBASIC (1985)


  Powerful high-level language with advanced user features (year?)
• Visual C (1992)


  Visual language programming methods; design environments (year?)
• Visual BASIC (1993)


  Visual language programming methods; design environments; advanced user- friendly features (year?)