Programming Languages from 30k Feet (wide screen)

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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

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