Synopsis
A LITTLE HISTORY ABOUT…
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
Programming languages emerged to facilitate the way of interacting with computers and creating programs. Nowadays we all use a lot of software on all the electronic devices we use. On our mobile phones, on our televisions, video game consoles and especially on our computers.
This book gives you a vision of how the first languages emerged and how they influenced other languages until reaching the Internet age. The 20th Century from the point of view of programming languages, history beginning with the 40s and 50s, the first steps from Babbage and Lovelace to languages that endure today such as COBOL, FORTRAN or Lisp.
«No one knows the potential contained in this powerful system; One day you will be able to play music, compose symphonies and complex graphic designs. There’s Lovelace
A tour of the History of Programming Languages in the 20th century. From Ada Lovelace’s first ideas on programming, reaching the first Plankälkul programming language, the first assembler, the first compilers and the great advance of the 40s and 50s on languages and programming. Controversies between programmers and the journey of each of the main actors to obtain better ways to accelerate the taking of information from machines.
Source: https://algunoslibrosbuenos.com/historia-de-los-lenguajes-de-programacion-anos-1940-1959
