Lecture 2 A Brief History of Programming Languages

• Early Systems
• Zuse's Plankalkul
• Pseudocode: Short Code, Speedcoding
• IBM 704 and FORTRAN
• Functional Programming: LISP
• First Steps Toward Sophistication: ALGOL 60
• The Business Domain: COBOL
• Timesharing: BASIC
• The Kitchen Sink: PL/1
• Two Early Dynamic Languages:
• APL
• SNOBOL
• SIMULA 67: Simulation with Objects
• ALGOL 68: Orthogonal Design
• The ALGOL Family: Pascal, C, Modula(s), Oberon
• Programming with Logic: PROLOG
• Coordinated Design: Ada
• Smalltalk
• C++