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The ENIAC
The ENIAC, short for Electrical Numerical Integrator and Calculator, was developed by the US Government to fill the increasing need for computer capacity to calculate trajectory tables and other essential data -
New Concepts
John von Neumann begins development of two important concepts that would directly affect the path of computer programming languages forever
The first concept, known as "shared-program technique"
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First Compiler
Grace Hopper develops the first computer compiler which is called A-0, in 1951 -
FORTRAN
FORTRAN or FORmula TRANslating system was invented -
LISP
John McCarthy of MIT creates the LISt Processing (LISP) language -
COBOL
COBOL was developed to fill the need that FORTRAN could not -
APL
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SNOBOL
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BASIC
BASIC or Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code was made -
LOGO
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BCPL
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FORTH
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SMALLTALK
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ICON
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PASCAL
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C
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MUMPS
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AWK
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REXX
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Modula 2
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C++
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Eiffel
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PERL
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JAVA
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PYTHON
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Visual Basic
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Ruby On Rails
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JavaScript
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VBScript