History Of Programming Language ?

1883: The Journey starts from here…!!

In the early days, Charles Babbage had made the device, but he was confused about how to give instructions to the machine, and then Ada Lovelace wrote the instructions for the analytical engine.

The device was made by Charles Babbage and the code was written by Ada Lovelace for computing Bernoulli’s number.

First time in history that the capability of computer devices was judged.

1949: Assembly Language

     It is a type of low-level language.

It mainly consists of instructions (kind of symbols) that only machines could understand.

In today’s time also assembly language is used in real-time programs such as simulation flight navigation systems and medical equipment eg – Fly-by-wire (FBW) systems.

It is also used to create computer viruses.

1952: Autocode

     Developed by Alick Glennie.

The first compiled computer programming language.

COBOL and FORTRAN are the languages referred to as Autocode.

1957: FORTRAN

     Developers are John Backus and IBM.

It was designed for numeric computation and scientific computing.

Software for NASA probes voyager-1 (space probe) and voyager-2 (space probe) was originally written in FORTRAN 5.

1958: ALGOL

     ALGOL stands for ALGOrithmic Language.

The initial phase of the most popular programming languages of C, C++, and JAVA.

It was also the first language implementing the nested function and has a simple syntax than FORTRAN.

The first programming language to have a code block like “begin” that indicates that your program has started and “end” means you have ended your code.

1959: COBOL

   It stands for COmmon Business-Oriented Language.

In 1997, 80% of the world’s business ran on Cobol.

The US internal revenue service scrambled its path to COBOL-based IMF (individual master file) in order to pay the tens of millions of payments mandated by the coronavirus aid, relief, and economic security.

1964: BASIC

    It stands for beginners All-purpose symbolic instruction code.

In 1991 Microsoft released Visual Basic, an updated version of Basic

The first microcomputer version of Basic was co-written by Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and Monte Davidoff for their newly-formed company, Microsoft.

1972: C

    It is a general-purpose, procedural programming language and the most popular programming language till now.

All the code that was previously written in assembly language gets replaced by the C language like operating system, kernel, and many other applications.

It can be used in implementing an operating system, embedded system, and also on the website using the Common Gateway Interface (CGI).

C is the mother of almost all higher-level programming languages like C#, D, Go, Java, JavaScript, Limbo, LPC, Perl, PHP, Python, and Unix’s C shell.