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Programming Languages from 30k Feet

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April 25, 2014
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Programming Languages from 30k Feet

A short history of a few programming languages.

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April 25, 2014

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Transcript

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

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

  3. 01 Assembly ✤ 1949 (EDSAC Computer)! ✤ assembler! ✤ machine

    code! ✤ opcode & operands
  4. None

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

    moon.! ✤ It does math.

  6. 01 RPG ✤ 1959! ✤ Report Program Generator! ✤ File

    Specs! ✤ Data Definition Specifications

  7. C++ A language born of C and forever more… ✤

    OOP Happened!! ✤ {} and other common syntax

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

  9. Languages ✤ Pascal! ✤ C! ✤ Perl! ✤ Fortran! ✤

    BASIC, GW-BASIC, etc.

  10. 01 Coding Features Cats got lots of features.

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

    or Relative

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

    Static Typed

  13. Cool Cat Coding Lotsa coding cats.

  14. 01 Communities The importance of people.

  15. Cool Cat Coding So where does that lead us to

    today? Where are we heading?

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

    ✤ Python

  17. Enterprise Kingdom ✤ Java! ✤ C#! ✤ Visual Basic /

    Visual Basic for Application (VBA)! ✤ JavaScript (yup, still shows up here)

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

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

  20. 01