Features A brief history of computer programming languages. Which do you use? Simon Raik-Allen ABC Technology and Games Updated 17 Jan 2013 (First posted 11 Jan 2013) ...

1 FORMAC (FORmula Manipulation Compiler) was the first language for symbolic mathematics that had significant use. See Jean E. Sammet's "The Beginning and Development of FORMAC," in History of ...

Since Smalltalk-80 there hasn't been all that much development in programming languages. Lisp was in 1958, so functional programming dates back to then. Hindley-Milner was complete by 1982 and had ...

Python is now one of the most popular programming languages in 2021. It has attracted a lot of market attention from the start because of its simple, clear, and modular approach. Let's now delve a ...