Prelude
What's a PL?
What's a Program?
Brief History of PLs
- Machine Language (1946)
- Assembly Language
- Flow-Matic by Grace Hopper
- FORTRAN (1954) - F77
- COBOL (1959)
- LISP (1960)
- BASIC (1960)
- ...
- C (1974) - C++
- Java
Characteristics of COBOL
A History of COBOL