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  2. Dennis Ritchie - Wikipedia

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    Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (September 9, 1941 – c. October 12, 2011) was an American computer scientist. [3] He created the C programming language and the Unix operating system and B language with long-time colleague Ken Thompson. [3]

  3. History of software - Wikipedia

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    The very first time a stored-program computer held a piece of software in electronic memory and executed it successfully, was 11 am 21 June 1948, at the University of Manchester, on the Manchester Baby computer. It was written by Tom Kilburn, and calculated the highest factor of the integer 2^18 = 262,144. Starting with a large trial divisor ...

  4. Timeline of programming languages - Wikipedia

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    Smalltalk, APL, Objective-C 1997 ISLISP: ISO Standard ISLISP Common Lisp: 1997 Tea: Jorge Nunes Java, Scheme, Tcl: 1997 REBOL: Carl Sassenrath, Rebol Technologies Self, Forth, Lisp, Logo: 1998 Logtalk: Paulo Moura (then at University of Coimbra) Prolog 1998 ActionScript: Gary Grossman: ECMAScript 1998 Standard C++: ANSI/ISO Standard C++ C++ ...

  5. WordStar - Wikipedia

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    WordStar was the first microcomputer word processor to offer mail merge and textual WYSIWYG.Besides word-wrapping (still a notable feature for early microcomputer programs), this last was most noticeably implemented as on-screen pagination during the editing session.

  6. List of pioneers in computer science - Wikipedia

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    Together with J. C. Shaw [43] and Herbert Simon, the three co-wrote the Logic Theorist, the first true AI program, in the first list-processing language, which influenced LISP. 1943 Newman, Max: Instigated the production of the Colossus computers at Bletchley Park.

  7. Charles Babbage - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 21 February 2025. English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871) "Babbage" redirects here. For other uses, see Babbage (disambiguation). Charles Babbage KH FRS Babbage in 1860 Born (1791-12-26) 26 December 1791 London, England Died 18 October 1871 (1871-10-18) (aged 79) Marylebone, London ...

  8. History of programming languages - Wikipedia

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    The first high-level language to have an associated compiler was created by Corrado Böhm in 1951, for his PhD thesis. [3] The first commercially available language was FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslation), developed in 1956 (first manual appeared in 1956, but first developed in 1954) by a team led by John Backus at IBM .

  9. Timeline of computing 1950–1979 - Wikipedia

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    It is a very popular language, especially for systems programming – as it is flexible and fast. C was considered a refreshing change in the computing field because it helped introduce structured programming. Inspired by C, C++, was introduced in the 1980s, and in turn helped usher in the era of object-oriented programming. 1972: US