History, Evolution and Classification of Programming Languages
Could you recommend a good reference on this topic? Or would you be interested in writing and article on this subject?
Here are some thoughts, based on my experience. This is just a (small) starting point. Could you help me build a much better lists, and provide details on each language? Maybe a tree that shows for each language, its parent(s) (e.g. C++ has C and Pascal Oriented Object as parents)
Classification by function:
- DataBase: SQL, noSQL, SAS
- Specialized: R, SAS, LaTex
- Visualization: ?
- Data Mining: PMML
- Web: HTML, JavaScript, XML, PHP
- Operating System: C Shell, Awk
- Macro: SAS, C Shell
- Social Networks: to write Apps
- General: C++
Classification by type:
- Interpreted: Basic, Perl
- Compiled: C++
- Visual: VB, Visual C++
- Scripting languages: Perl, Python
- Object Oriented, C++, Java, Python, R
- API: SOAP, WSDL
History
- Assember, HP language for HP calculator (1970)
- Fortran, Cobol, SQL (1970)
- Lisp, APL, Pascal (1980)
- C, C++, R (1990)
- Perl, Java, C#, PHP (1990)
- Python, Ruby (2000)
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Permalink Reply by John Ratcliffe on -
For years I had an enormous tome which attempted some important language comparisons. It wasn't particularly good. I got rid of it a few years ago because it took up too much space on my bookshelf. And the languages covered ended with Smalltalk (1980). :)
I could help you put something together. For me, it would be an interesting exercise, but who is the target audience?
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