Programming Languages

A highly selected list of programming languages

• Machine language
  • Zeroes and ones
• Assemble language
  • Symbolic codes for machine language
  • Symbolic representation of memory locations
  • Roughly one instruction per machine language instruction
• FORTRAN, FORmula TRANslator
  • Very early language, 1950s
  • Symbolic representation of complex mathematical expressions
  • Common block
    • Can be made to allow data hiding within a module
    • More often leads to bad programming
• Algol 60, 1960
  • Structured programming
• Ada
  • Modularity
  • Proceedural language
  • Military Standard, MIL-STD-1815
  • Multi-tasking
• C++
  • Object oriented C
• Java
  • C++ without the bad stuff
  • Applets & programs
  • Secure, largely