Programming Languages from 30k Feet

by Adron Hall

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

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Cool Cat Coding Where have the coding cats been?

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

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

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

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

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COBOL (COBOL!!!!!!! YEAH!) BOLFH

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

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01 Coding Features Cats got lots of features.

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

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

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Cool Cat Coding Lotsa coding cats.

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01 Communities The importance of people.

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

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

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