Submitted by candyman0033 on February 20, 2009

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Evolution Of Programming Languages

Most books and articles on history of programming languages tend to discuss languages in term of generations. This is useful arrangement for classifying languages by age. I agree that whatever a few of software engineers get together, we cannot ever seem to agree on what constitutes the generation of computer languages. We know that Formula Translation (FORTRAN) was probably a first-generation language. Does that make FORTRAN and Wait for second languages? Is the newest FORTRAN (FORTRAN 90) third or fourth generation? How about common Business-Oriented Languages (COBAL)?It has been around since 1959, and yet COBAL 2000 will be an object-oriented(OO)COBAL. Does this make it fourth...

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