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Illustrated: History of programming languages
If you are of my generation, you might be familiar with programming languages like Fortran, Cobol, Lisp, Prolog, Pascal, and Basic. Later, newer generations will be using C, C plus, Java, Script, Ada, Smalltalk, Python…
valbonneconsulting posted this Feb. 16, 2014
James Iry’s history of programming languages (illustrated with pictures and large fonts)
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Adonis Diaries 