Programming Languages from 30k Feet (wide screen)

A short history of a few programming languages.

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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
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