{"id":1195,"date":"2024-12-14T11:46:17","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T11:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/?p=1195"},"modified":"2024-12-26T13:52:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T13:52:30","slug":"a-brief-history-of-programming-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/2024\/12\/14\/a-brief-history-of-programming-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"A brief history of programming languages"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I was thinking about the history of programming languages recently, I remembered slides I once made, showing a (simplified) family\/influence\/history diagram of languages.<\/p>\n

Shared he in case it’s useful to anyone.<\/p>\n

(It was made many years ago, so not up to date after 2010 – sorry. And I fully expect your comments correcting my interpretations…)<\/p>\n

\"A

Some programming languages and their relationships (up to 2010)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"The

Languages with C-style syntax<\/p><\/div>\n

\"The

Functional languages (some languages intentionally on the border…)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"The

Object-oriented languages (some languages intentionally on the border)<\/p><\/div>\n

Here is a PDF file with the same diagrams<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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