Re: Have we reached the asymptotic plateau of innovation in programming languages?

From: "SLK Systems" <slkpg3@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, 9 March 2012 2:21 AM


> >Personally, I'd say there's been precious little new in programming
>>languages since Simula gave us OOP in the late 1960s.
>
> Yes, and milestones prior to that were
>
> assembly language - easier than binary coding


Then FORTRAN and GEORGE, and probably others,
which improved considerably on machine and assembly languages.


> COBOL - promoting the use of descriptive identifiers
>
> And some later significant developments were
>
> C language - standardizing the syntax of procedural programming


Long before C, Algol was used extensively for public presentation
of algorithms (see Collected Algorithms of the ACM, initially
published in Communications of the ACM);
after Algol came PL/I (which incorporated some good features
of Algol, COBOL, and FORTRAN), then Pascal.

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