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From: SLK Systems <slkpg3@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 10:21:31 -0500
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 12-03-012
Keywords: history, design, comment
Posted-Date: 08 Mar 2012 18:27:52 EST

>Personally, I'd say there's been precious little new in programming
>languages since Simula gave us OOP in the late 1960s.


Yes, and milestones prior to that were


assembly language - easier than binary coding
COBOL - promoting the use of descriptive identifiers


And some later significant developments were


C language - standardizing the syntax of procedural programming
Wintel - standardizing the sub-programming language layer


http://slkpg.byethost7.com


[Some of us who programmed in ANSI Standard Fortran 66 and PL/I 76
might take issue with the claim that C standardized procedural
programming. Standard high level procedural interfaces to operating
systems aren't new either, Burroughs had them in Algol in the 1960s.
-John]

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