Programming Languages from 30k Feet

A short history of a few programming languages.

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1. April 24, 2014
   Programming Languages
   Languages from 30,000 ft.
   

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2. Cool Cat Coding
   Where have the coding cats been?
   

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   Assembly
   ✤ 1949 (EDSAC Computer)!
   ✤ assembler!
   ✤ machine code!
   ✤ opcode & operands
   

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5. Fortran
   ✤ 1957!
   ✤ It landed a lander on the moon.!
   ✤ It does math.
   

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   RPG
   ✤ 1959!
   ✤ Report Program Generator!
   ✤ File Specs!
   ✤ Data Definition Specifications
   

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7. C++
   A language born of C and forever more…
   ✤ OOP Happened!!
   ✤ {} and other common syntax
   

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8. COBOL (COBOL!!!!!!! YEAH!)
   BOLFH
   

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9. Languages
   ✤ Pascal!
   ✤ C!
   ✤ Perl!
   ✤ Fortran!
   ✤ BASIC, GW-BASIC, etc.
   

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10. 01
    Coding
    Features
    Cats got lots of features.
    

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11. Language Characteristics
    ✤ Turing Complete!
    ✤ Compilable!
    ✤ Readable, Writable or Relative
    

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12. Language Characteristics
    ✤ Object Oriented!
    ✤ Functional!
    ✤ Dynamic!
    ✤ Static Typed
    

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13. Cool Cat Coding
    Lotsa coding cats.
    

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    Communities
    The importance of people.
    

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15. Cool Cat Coding
    So where does that lead us to today? Where are we heading?
    

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16. Web World
    ✤ JavaScript!
    ✤ Java!
    ✤ Ruby!
    ✤ PHP!
    ✤ Python
    

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17. Enterprise Kingdom
    ✤ Java!
    ✤ C#!
    ✤ Visual Basic / Visual Basic for Application (VBA)!
    ✤ JavaScript (yup, still shows up here)
    

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18. Science Land
    ✤ R!
    ✤ Matlab!
    ✤ FORTRAN
    

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19. Cool Cat Coding Languages
    ✤ Go!
    ✤ Erlang!
    ✤ JavaScript
    

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