COMPUTER PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
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PASCAL
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PL/1
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FORTRAN
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C++
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Detailed explanation-1: -IBM announced that COBOL would be their primary development language in 1962. A standardized version of COBOL was approved by American National Standards Institute (ANSI) for commercial use in 1968. By 1970, COBOL had become the most widely used programming language in the world.
Detailed explanation-2: -From its creation in 1954, and its commercial release in 1957 as the progenitor of software, Fortran (FORMula TRANslator) became the first computer language standard, “helped open the door to modern computing, ” and may well be the most influential software product in history.
Detailed explanation-3: -Java was originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems. It was released in May 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems’ Java platform. The original and reference implementation Java compilers, virtual machines, and class libraries were originally released by Sun under proprietary licenses.