Basic
• Short for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
• Developed in the 1950s for teaching University students to program and provided with every self-respecting personal computer in the 1980s.
• BASIC has been the first programming language for many programmers.
• It is also the foundation for Visual Basic.
Visual Basic
• A programming language and environment developed by Microsoft.
• Based on the BASIC language, Visual Basic was one of the first products to provide a graphical programming environment and a paint metaphor for developing user interfaces.
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C
• Developed by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs in the mid 1970s.
• C is much closer to assembly language than are most other high-level languages.
• The first major program written in C was the UNIX operating system.
• The low-level nature of C, however, can make the language difficult to use for some types of applications.
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C++
• A high-level programming language developed by Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Labs.
• C++ adds object-oriented features to its predecessor, C.
• C++ is one of the most popular programming language for graphical applications, such as those that run in Windows and Macintosh environments.
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Pascal
• A high-level programming language developed by Niklaus Wirth in the late 1960s.
• The language is named after Blaise Pascal, a seventeenth-century French mathematician who constructed one of the first mechanical adding machines.
• It is a popular teaching language.
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Java
• A high-level programming language developed by Sun Micro systems.
• Java was originally called OAK, and was designed for handheld devices and set-top boxes.
• Oak was unsuccessful so in 1995 Sun changed the name to Java and modified the language to take advantage of the burgeoning World Wide Web.
• Java is a general purpose programming language with a number of features that make the language well suited for use on the World Wide Web.
