BASIC. BASIC (an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages whose design philosophy emphasizes ease of use. In 1964, John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz designed the original BASIC language at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. They wanted to enable students in fields other than science and mathematics to use computers. At the time, nearly all use of computers required writing custom software, which was something only scientists and mathematicians tended to learn how to use. Versions of BASIC became widespread on microcomputers in the mid-1970s and 1980s. History[edit] Before the mid-1960s, computers were extremely expensive mainframe machines, usually requiring a dedicated computer room and air-conditioning, used by large organizations for scientific and commercial tasks.
Origin[edit] The designers of the language decided to make the compiler available free of charge so that the language would become widespread. Borland C++ Libraries[edit] Object Windows Library (OWL): A set of C++ classes to make it easier to develop professional graphical Windows applications. Borland Graphics Interface: A library of functions for doing simple, presentation-style 2D graphics. Drivers were included for generic CGA, EGA and VGA capability, with support for a limited number of video-modes, but more advanced, third-party drivers were also available. Add-ons[edit] Borland Power Pack for DOS: Used to create 16- and 32-bit protected mode DOS applications, which can access a limited scope of the Windows API and call functions in any Windows DLL.
Version History[edit] Borland C++ 2.0 - (1991, MS-DOS)Borland C++ 3.0 - (1991) New compiler support to build Microsoft Windows applications.Borland C++ 3.1 - (1992) Introduction of Windows-based IDE and application frameworks (OWL 1.0, Turbovision 1.0)Borland C++ 4.0 - (1993, Windows 3.x) MS-DOS IDE supported no longer, included OWL 2.0.Borland C++ 1.0 - (1992, OS/2)Borland C++ 1.5 - (? Computer Languages History.
Computing Languages List - Profile :: CareerCtr. HyperNews Home Using HyperNews (Instructions) HYPERNEWS COMPUTER LANGUAGE LIST v 1.4 These snippets have been culled from existing programming language sources, the language designer's web pages, books, articles and language critiques. They are by no means meant to be the definitive language definitions, but rather quick and painless definitions and links to available language web sites and newsgroups. My sources are listed in Parts 3 & 5. Special Thanks to Dr John Stockton. Corrections, omissions, and any feedback is encouraged and appreciated.
Please support Open Source. Eric Lebherz June 16,2005 EricLebherz@yahoo.com Part 1 - Definitions of Computer Language Families Part 2 - Definitions of Computer Languages Part 3 - Links to Essential Computer Language Web Sites Part 4 - Links to Computer Language Software Part 5 - Sammet's 26 Most Significant Programming Languages, By Year Part 6 - Bibliography Part 7 - Abbreviations APPLICATIVE LANGUAGES- operates by application of functions to values. GHC/Data Parallel Haskell. 1 Data Parallel Haskell Searching for Parallel Haskell? DPH is a fantastic effort, but it's not the only way to do parallelism in Haskell. Try the Parallel Haskell portal for a more general view. Data Parallel Haskell is the codename for an extension to the Glasgow Haskell Compiler and its libraries to support nested data parallelism with a focus to utilise multicore CPUs.
Nested data parallelism extends the programming model of flat data parallelism, as known from parallel Fortran dialects, to irregular parallel computations (such as divide-and-conquer algorithms) and irregular data structures (such as sparse matrices and tree structures). An introduction to nested data parallelism in Haskell, including some examples, can be found in the paper Nepal – Nested Data-Parallelism in Haskell. This is the performance of a dot product of two vectors of 10 million doubles each using Data Parallel Haskell. 1.1 Project status DPH focuses on irregular data parallelism. 1.2 Where to get it 1.3 Overview.
Ghosts in the Machine: 12 Coding Languages That Never Took Off. Haskell. Hitory of Programming Languages. HomePage - Kwiki. History of Programming Languages Wiki Among our friends, authors, and editors, there is a high level of historical knowledge and personal experience of the events in the History of Programming Languages poster. We hope to inspire and capture your comments and discussion here in in this wiki. Just click the EDIT button below to post your comments on this page. Please note, however, that we aren't planning to update the poster. :OReilly Great Poster! I don't see how BASIC existed in splendid isolation excepAside from the name, Visual Basic and BASIC have very little in common. this the great Poster Thanks :Mohsen Basirat I'm somewhat distraught that Ruby isn't on the poster :Daniel Berger Ruby should be among these languages as well :Kent It's there.
A somewhat lighter version: :Joao Fortran II begat a language called Tabol, Tabol begat FCS/EPS and FCS/EPS begat MicroFCS. It would make my life a little less meaningless :-) Agile Programming Languages. Introduction To QBasic - Pete's QBASIC / QuickBasic Site. What is QuickBasic? The Short Version: QuickBasic is a programming language developed by Microsoft for use in the MS-DOS operating system. It is the successor of earlier forms of BASIC (Beginners All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code), a simple programming language for beginning programmers. QB is an ideal programming language for beginners because of its intuitive commands, simple structure and flexibility. It is well-documented, and hundreds of tutorials and sample programs are available for download on the Internet. The Long Version:In 1985, Microsoft released the first version of QuickBasic, a faster and more feature-rich version of BASIC.
What is QBASIC? QBASIC is a a stripped-down version of QuickBasic that Microsoft released in 1991, which was included for free with MS-DOS 5 and later versions. QBASIC is shareware. What is the difference between QBASIC and QuickBasic? While QBASIC is shareware, QuickBasic is commercial software. How can I get started programming in QBASIC? Introduction to QuickBasic. PRACTICAL MATHEMATICS Microsoft QuickBasic is a modern form of BASIC which is easy to learn.
Learning QuickBasic will help you to learn Visual Basic and other programming languages. A simplified version is QBasic. These notes give enough of QBasic for simple mathematical applications. Use the Help menu on the computer to learn more, or look at the following books: Halvorson, M., and Rygmyr, D., 1989, Learn Basic Now, Microsoft Press. Waite, M., Arnson, R., Gemmell, C., and Henderson, H., 1990, Microsoft Quickbasic Bible, Microsoft Press. Contents 1. 1. REM Distance from the Origin PRINT "Enter X and Y" INPUT X, Y LET Dist = SQR(X * X + Y * Y) PRINT Dist END 2. A program consists of lines of text. The lines in the program contain statements which tell the computer what to do. The keyword REM means "remark". 3. Numerical constants are written in the usual way, with or without a decimal point, and with or without a minus sign: 2.75E4 means 27500, 2.75E-3 means 0.00275. CONST HalfPi = 1.570796.
List of programming languages. The aim of this list of programming languages is to include all notable programming languages in existence, both those in current use and historical ones, in alphabetical order, except for dialects of BASIC and esoteric programming languages. Note: Dialects of BASIC have been moved to the separate List of BASIC dialects. Note: This page does not list esoteric programming languages. A[edit] B[edit] C[edit] D[edit] E[edit] F[edit] G[edit] H[edit] I[edit] J[edit] K[edit] L[edit] M[edit] N[edit] O[edit] P[edit] Q[edit] R[edit] S[edit] T[edit] U[edit] V[edit] W[edit] X[edit] Y[edit] Z[edit] See also[edit]
List of Programming Languages in Alphabetical Order. List of programming languages used by programmer scientists | Programming for Scientists. Programming paradigm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Profile :: CareerCtr. A programming paradigm is a fundamental style of computer programming, a way of building the structure and elements of computer programs. Capablities and styles of various programming languages are defined by their supported programming paradigms; some programming languages are designed to follow only one paradigm, while others support multiple paradigms. There are six main programming paradigms: imperative, declarative, functional, object-oriented, logic and symbolic programming.[1][2][3] Overview[edit] Overview of the various programming paradigms[4]:5 In object-oriented programming, programmers can think of a program as a collection of interacting objects, while in functional programming a program can be thought of as a sequence of stateless function evaluations.
When programming computers or systems with many processors, process-oriented programming allows programmers to think about applications as sets of concurrent processes acting upon logically shared data structures. History[edit] REXX. Rexx is supplied with VM/SP on up, TSO/E Version 2 on up, OS/2 (1.3 on up), AmigaOS Version 2 on up, PC DOS (7.0 or 2000), and Windows NT 4.0 (Resource Kit: Regina). REXX scripts for OS/2 share the filename extension .cmd with other scripting languages, and the first line of the script specifies the interpreter to be used. A Rexx script or command is sometimes referred to as an EXEC in a nod to Rexx's role as a replacement for the older EXEC command language on CP/CMS and VM/370 and EXEC 2 command language on VM/SP. Features[edit] Rexx has the following characteristics and features: Rexx has just twenty-three, largely self-evident, instructions (such as call, parse, and select) with minimal punctuation and formatting requirements.
Rexx's syntax looks similar to PL/I, but has fewer notations; this makes it harder to parse (by program) but easier to use, except for cases where PL/I habits may lead to surprises. History[edit] Several freeware versions of Rexx are available. Syntax[edit] SSL Error. The Encyclopedia of Computer Languages. The History of C++ Programming Language - Authentic Society. Notes on the difference between C an C++ You may hear from time to time that the C++ programming language is a superset of the C language. In C++, you can do almost everything you can do in C, with the exception of just a small number of things that may be considered specification details. Nonetheless, C and C++ are two different languages. One of the important points I'd like to make is that it is not desired to write C programs in a C++ compiler, although it is possible. We would rather stick to a C compiler if we wanted to write a C program, as we would use a C++ compiler to write a program in C++.
Why was it named C++? Initially the C++ language was named "C with Classes" because you could still write C-like programs in C++ but you could also use what we call classes. On the other hand, the reason the C programming language is called C, is that it is a successor to the language called B. The History of C++ And so, with the help of the previous few paragraphs we can move on. The History of Programming Languages. For 50 years, computer programmers have been writing code. New technologies continue to emerge, develop, and mature at a rapid pace. Now there are more than 2,500 documented programming languages! O'Reilly has produced a poster called History of Programming Languages (PDF: 701K), which plots over 50 programming languages on a multi-layered, color-coded timeline. How It Started We first saw the "History of Programming Languages" diagram, created by Éric Lévénez, while visiting our French office.
About the O'Reilly Poster "Cool" is generally the first thing we heard from people who reviewed our poster. Getting Your Copy The poster is available online in PDF format (701k). Special Thanks Thanks to all who reviewed and commented on this poster along the way, including Éric Lévénez, Mark Brokering, Mark Stone, Daniel Steinberg, David Flanagan, Ian Darwin, Tim O'Reilly, Mike Hendrickson, Laurie Petrycki, Geoff Collyer, and Mark Brader. The Language List.