Hundreds of high-level languages have been developed, but only a few have achieved broad acceptance. Fortran [FORmula TRANslator] was developed by IBM corporation between 1954 and 1957 to be used for scientific and engineering applications that require complex mathematical computations. Fortran is still widely used.
COBOL [cOmmon business oriented language] was developed in
1959 by a group of computer manufacturers and government and industrial
computer users. COBOL is used primarily for commercial applications that
require precise and efficient manipulation of large amounts of data. Today,
about half of all business software is still programmed in COBOL. Approximately
one million people are actively writing COBOL programs.
Pascal was designed at about the same time as c. It was
created by professor nicklaus wirth and was intended for academic use. we say
more about pascal in the next section.
Basic was developed in 1965 at Dartmouth university as a
simple language to help novices become comfortable with programming. Bill gates
implemented Basic on several early personal computers. Today, microsoft- the
company bill gates created- is the world's leading software development
organization.
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