Programming language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A programming language is an artificial language designed to express computations that can be performed by a machine, particularly a computer. Programming languages can be used to create programs th...
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High-level programming language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In computing, a high-level programming language is a programming language with strong abstraction from the details of the computer. In comparison to low-level programming languages, it may use natur...
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FORTRAN or formula translation was the first high level programming language (software) invented by John Backus for IBM in 1954, and released commercially in 1957. ... The invention of Fortran began a $24 million dollar computer software industry and began the development of other high level programming languages.
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This page describes the term high-level language and lists other pages on the Web where you can find additional information. ... The first high-level programming languages were designed in the 1950s. Now there are dozens of different languages, including Ada, Algol, BASIC, COBOL, C, C++, FORTRAN, LISP, Pascal, and Prolog.
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Rather, it points out that the Plankalkül was not only the first high-level programming language but in some aspects conceptually ahead of the high-level languages that evolved a decade later; » View citation and abstract...
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UML is the union of three modeling languages designed by the three authors above. ... Scriptol is destinated to evolve and to have, along classes, other high-level structures to allow programs to be nearest human thought. ... Other trends are higher level for languages, programming by aspects, or by schemas with UML and...
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Functional languages are gathering momentum in education because they facilitate the expression of concepts and structures at a high level of abstraction. Many university computing science departments now make use of functional programming in their undergraduate courses;
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It has to be said that in 1987 when Sun introduced the first SPARC based computer, ... This revolution in hardware logic design was akin to the invention of high level programming languages which enabled programmers to write their applications in terms of the problem, rather than needing to know exactly how the computer...
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It was in this context that the first high-level programming language were developed. ... COBOL (Common Or Business Oriented Language) was designed at the end of the 1950s by Admiral Grace Hopper in response to a commission from the U.S. ... As a result a number of `high-level' programming languages began to appear from 1956 onwards.
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CiteSeerX - Document Details (Isaac Councill, Lee Giles): This paper presents the first implementation of Plankalkül, the programming notation invented by the German engineer Konrad Zuse in 1945. Plankalkül is a high-level imperative programming language. ... This paper presents the first implementation of Plankalkül,
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