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Adron Hall
April 25, 2014
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Programming Languages from 30k Feet
A short history of a few programming languages.
Adron Hall
April 25, 2014
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April 24, 2014 Programming Languages Languages from 30,000 ft.
Cool Cat Coding Where have the coding cats been?
01 Assembly ✤ 1949 (EDSAC Computer)! ✤ assembler! ✤ machine
code! ✤ opcode & operands
None
Fortran ✤ 1957! ✤ It landed a lander on the
moon.! ✤ It does math.
01 RPG ✤ 1959! ✤ Report Program Generator! ✤ File
Specs! ✤ Data Definition Specifications
C++ A language born of C and forever more… ✤
OOP Happened!! ✤ {} and other common syntax
COBOL (COBOL!!!!!!! YEAH!) BOLFH
Languages ✤ Pascal! ✤ C! ✤ Perl! ✤ Fortran! ✤
BASIC, GW-BASIC, etc.
01 Coding Features Cats got lots of features.
Language Characteristics ✤ Turing Complete! ✤ Compilable! ✤ Readable, Writable
or Relative
Language Characteristics ✤ Object Oriented! ✤ Functional! ✤ Dynamic! ✤
Static Typed
Cool Cat Coding Lotsa coding cats.
01 Communities The importance of people.
Cool Cat Coding So where does that lead us to
today? Where are we heading?
Web World ✤ JavaScript! ✤ Java! ✤ Ruby! ✤ PHP!
✤ Python
Enterprise Kingdom ✤ Java! ✤ C#! ✤ Visual Basic /
Visual Basic for Application (VBA)! ✤ JavaScript (yup, still shows up here)
Science Land ✤ R! ✤ Matlab! ✤ FORTRAN
Cool Cat Coding Languages ✤ Go! ✤ Erlang! ✤ JavaScript
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