The future of the programming world is unpredictable in terms of innovation but looks bright and healthy. Programming has surpassed expected standards, surprising generations with constant inventions and innovations. With every calendar year, technology moves up a notch. But what made this all possible and what started this revolution of programming languages? Let's flip back to the first few pages in the history of programming and find out.
Chapter1: Analytical Machine
In 1837, Charles Babbage also called the father of computers had proposed a machine that he called the Analytical Machine. This machine was suppose to be fully programmable and was very similar to the advanced systems used today, in that it had a central processing unit, printer and output data. It also could store the programme and input data separately. But Charles Babbage died in 1871 and was unable to build this promising machine.
Chapter2:John Von NeumanAnd ENIAC
John Von Neuman with his team succefully built ENIAC in the year 1945. The ENIAC ran specific stored programmes and had a cenral processor.The first of its kind.
Chapter3: The ?rst programming language and compiler
In 1949 the ?rst programming language came into existence and allowed simple arithmetic calculations and provided branching. It further provided call to a library of functions. This code wasn't even a machine code and in fact it was about 50 times slower. And you'd be surprised to learn that coders used hands to compile the bits! And then in 1951, came the first compiler called A-0, which can be easily termed as the father of the advanced compilers utilized today.
Chapter4: The First of the Programming languages
FORTRAN (1957) or Formula Translation, is the language that introduced data types, such as integers, boolean, etc, and was mainly used for scienti?c computing or for military projects.
COBOL (1959) or Common Business Oriented Language was developed by Conference On Data Systems And Languages (CODASYL). Based on Flow-Matic system, some of its features included, names upto 12 characters, data storing data and separate coding. COBOL only recognised numbers and strings of text.
ALGOL (1958) was the first language independent of machines. It had a formally designed syntax and is the basis of all the advanced programming languages used even today.
Lisp (1958)Or List Processing was one of the earliest programming languages which was based on the concept of computing by evaluating functions. The source code of the language was made up of lists which made manipulating the language very easy.
These were some of the early languages which have paved the way for the much advanced and fast languages that are capable of performing daunting tasks with the click of a button. Programmers today have access to so many languages with unlimited capabilities.Today, websites like Learnstreet.com, Codeacademy.com, and many others provide even beginners with coding lessons for free over the Web. Within few years many Internet educated programmers will be born and would be out there coding.
Chapter1: Analytical Machine
In 1837, Charles Babbage also called the father of computers had proposed a machine that he called the Analytical Machine. This machine was suppose to be fully programmable and was very similar to the advanced systems used today, in that it had a central processing unit, printer and output data. It also could store the programme and input data separately. But Charles Babbage died in 1871 and was unable to build this promising machine.
Chapter2:John Von NeumanAnd ENIAC
John Von Neuman with his team succefully built ENIAC in the year 1945. The ENIAC ran specific stored programmes and had a cenral processor.The first of its kind.
Chapter3: The ?rst programming language and compiler
In 1949 the ?rst programming language came into existence and allowed simple arithmetic calculations and provided branching. It further provided call to a library of functions. This code wasn't even a machine code and in fact it was about 50 times slower. And you'd be surprised to learn that coders used hands to compile the bits! And then in 1951, came the first compiler called A-0, which can be easily termed as the father of the advanced compilers utilized today.
Chapter4: The First of the Programming languages
FORTRAN (1957) or Formula Translation, is the language that introduced data types, such as integers, boolean, etc, and was mainly used for scienti?c computing or for military projects.
COBOL (1959) or Common Business Oriented Language was developed by Conference On Data Systems And Languages (CODASYL). Based on Flow-Matic system, some of its features included, names upto 12 characters, data storing data and separate coding. COBOL only recognised numbers and strings of text.
ALGOL (1958) was the first language independent of machines. It had a formally designed syntax and is the basis of all the advanced programming languages used even today.
Lisp (1958)Or List Processing was one of the earliest programming languages which was based on the concept of computing by evaluating functions. The source code of the language was made up of lists which made manipulating the language very easy.
These were some of the early languages which have paved the way for the much advanced and fast languages that are capable of performing daunting tasks with the click of a button. Programmers today have access to so many languages with unlimited capabilities.Today, websites like Learnstreet.com, Codeacademy.com, and many others provide even beginners with coding lessons for free over the Web. Within few years many Internet educated programmers will be born and would be out there coding.