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…Systems: Past, Present, and Future
■ Timeline of Programming Languages
Python or Java?
Year
Name
Contributor(s)
Predecessor(s)
1970
Pascal
N. Wirth and K. Jensen
ALGOL 60, ALGOL W
1972
(K&R) C
Dennis Ritchie
B, BCPL, ALGOL, 68
1972
Prolog / SQL
A. Colmerauer / IBM
2-level W-Grammar /
ALPHA, Quel (Ingres)
1978
MATLAB (?)
C. Moler, U.…
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