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