The History Behind the Computer Programming Language

Konrad Zuse (June 22, 1910 – December 18, 1995...
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The internet is used every day to for speed and convenience and is a great way to make everyday tasks of life a lot easier to execute. With the internet, a person can pay bills, communicate with family and friends, find a companion and make a living. In the area of employment, a more and more companies are permitting their employees to work at home by telecommunication systems. This makes it extremely beneficial to the employee because it eliminates commuting and co-worker conflicts.
Computer programming language is a great way to execute all of these tasks and can be beneficial if people learn a little about it. This language is also categorized as an artificial language that decides computations to be performed by a machine, oftentimes a computer. With these computer programming languages, programs can be created to manage the behavior of machines and to communicate with others.

Programming Language History

The programming languages can be dated back to the modern computer. This came in the form of player piano and programmable looms. Punch cards encoded information and led mechanical processing by the beginning of the 20th century. The formalisms of Alan Turing’s Turing machines and Alonzo Church’s lambda calculus supplied mathematical abstractions for articulating algorithms. The lambda calculus is still important in language design. This was called PlankalKkul, which was the first high level programming language to be designed between 1943 and 1945 by Konrad Zuse. This was not applied until 1998 and 2000. In the 1950s computes used programmers such as IBM 701 and UNIVAC which used first generation language or machine language programs. Assembly language programming, later in the 1950s had evolved to include ofmacro instructions and was followed by other languages such as LISP, FORTAN and COBOL.

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