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History of Languages

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Summary

Programming languages evolved from computer-compromised binary machine code, then assembly languages with abbreviations, to high-level languages like Fortran, Lisp, Python, and JavaScript. The higher the level of language, the easier it is for humans to read and the productivity of programmers to increase. Every generation is born to meet the increasingly complex computing needs.

Key points

The earliest language was binary machine code that only computers understood.
The assembly uses the abbreviation symbol instead of the machine code.
Fortran (1957) was made for scientific calculations; Lisp for artificial intelligence.
High-level languages are similar to human languages so they are easy to learn.
Each language was born from the needs of its own computing era.

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