Intro To Programming
Unit 1: Research Assignment
9/23/13

1970s

Pascal- Created in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth as a small and efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring. C- Created between 1969-1973 by Dennis Ritchie, Its design provides constructs that map efficiently to typical machine instructions, and therefore it has found lasting use in applications that had formerly been coded in assembly language, most notably system software like the UNIX computer operating system. COMAL- 1973 by Benedict Lofstedt and Borge R. Christensen, The "COMAL 80 PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE REPORT" contains the formal definition of the language. POP-2- 1970 by Robin Popplestone and Rod Burstall. It used an incrementak compiler, which gave it some of the flexibility of an interpreted language, including allowing new function definitions at run time and modification of function definitions while a program was running without the overhead of an interpreted language. INTERCAL- 1972 by Don Woods and James M. Lyon. It satirizes aspects of the various programming languages at the time, as well as the proliferation of proposed language constructs and notations in the 1960s.

1980s

ADA 80- Created by Jean Ichbiah from 1977-1983. It is a structured, statically typed, imperative, wide-spectrum, and object-oriented, high-level computer programming language, extended from Pascal and other languages. C++- A programming language that is general purpose, statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm and compiled. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises both high-level and low-level language features. Created by Bjarne Stroustrup in 1979. CBASIC- CBASIC is a compiled version of the BASIC programming language written for the CP/M operating