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  2. History of programming languages - Wikipedia

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    The first high-level programming language was Plankalkül, created by Konrad Zuse between 1942 and 1945. [2] The first high-level language to have an associated compiler was created by Corrado Böhm in 1951, for his PhD thesis. [ 3 ]

  3. High-level programming language - Wikipedia

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    A high-level programming language is a programming language with strong abstraction from the details of the computer.In contrast to low-level programming languages, it may use natural language elements, be easier to use, or may automate (or even hide entirely) significant areas of computing systems (e.g. memory management), making the process of developing a program simpler and more ...

  4. Timeline of programming languages - Wikipedia

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    none (unique language) 1951 Intermediate Programming Language Arthur Burks: Short Code 1951 Boehm unnamed coding system Corrado Böhm: CPC Coding scheme 1951 Klammerausdrücke Konrad Zuse: Plankalkül 1951 Stanislaus (Notation) Fritz Bauer: none (unique language) 1951 Sort Merge Generator: Betty Holberton: none (unique language) 1952

  5. John Backus - Wikipedia

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    John Warner Backus (December 3, 1924 – March 17, 2007) was an American computer scientist.He led the team that invented and implemented FORTRAN, the first widely used high-level programming language, and was the inventor of the Backus–Naur form (BNF), a widely used notation to define syntaxes of formal languages.

  6. Programming language generations - Wikipedia

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    Initially, all programming languages at a higher level than assembly were termed "third-generation", but later on, the term "fourth-generation" was introduced to try to differentiate the (then) new declarative languages (such as Prolog and domain-specific languages) which claimed to operate at an even higher level, and in a domain even closer ...

  7. Lisp (programming language) - Wikipedia

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    Lisp (historically LISP, an abbreviation of "list processing") is a family of programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized prefix notation. [3] Originally specified in the late 1950s, it is the second-oldest high-level programming language still in common use, after Fortran.

  8. History of compiler construction - Wikipedia

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    Between 1949 and 1951, Heinz Rutishauser proposed Superplan, a high-level language and automatic translator. [2] His ideas were later refined by Friedrich L. Bauer and Klaus Samelson. [3] The first practical compiler was written by Corrado Böhm in 1951 for his PhD thesis, [4] [5] one of the first computer science doctorates awarded anywhere in ...

  9. Programming language - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 20 January 2025. Language for communicating instructions to a machine The source code for a computer program in C. The gray lines are comments that explain the program to humans. When compiled and run, it will give the output "Hello, world!". A programming language is a system of notation for writing ...