Design Technology 2017:Year 9: September 2017

The evolution of computer languages Programming languages, has lasted about 200 years. In year 1957, formula translation, is the oldest language still in use. It was created by John Backus, the language was developed to perform high-level of scientific, mathematical, statistical computations. The Language is still used in aerospace automotive industries, government and research institution. This was used by National Weather Service. In 1959, language Cobol. This is common Business oriented Language it is behind the majority of business transaction systems running credit card processing, ATMs, telephones and calls, hospital systems, government, automotive systems and traffic signal systems. In 1964 the language was called or known as basic. This was developed by students at Dartmouth College, Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code was designed to be a simplified language for those without a strong technical or mathematical background. In 1960 the language was called or known as C. C was developed between 1969 and 1973 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system. It was called C because it features were derived form an earlier language called B. In 1970 the language was known or called Pascal. The language was named Blaise Pascal, it was credited for inventing the first adding machine in 1641. In 1983 the language was called or known as C++. Bell Labs, Bjarne Stroustrup modified the C language to C++ and created what many consider the most popular programming language ever. In 1991 the language was known or called Python. Monty Python served as the inspiration from the name of this language. Guido Van Rossum developed Python to fix problems in the ABC language and counties to serve as its lead designer. In 2005 the language was called or known as Ruby on Rails. It was extracted by David Heinermeier Hansson from his work on Basecamp, which is a project management tool by 37singales. He first released ruby as open source in July 2004.