EXERCISE5
Discuss the following aspects.
1.Prehistory of the programming languages;
2. 1940-s - development of electrically powered computers;
3. The Algol 60 Report – another milestone;
4. Major flowering of programming languages;
5. “Years of consolidation”
6. The rapid growth of Internet.
EXERCISE 6
Here is a summary of the text ‘History of programming languages’. Put one word only into each gap.
Like many "firsts" in history, the first modern programming language is hard a)______. The first programming languages were b)______ on punch cards.
In the c)______ electrically powered computers were created.
The limited speed and memory capacity d)_____programmers to write hand tuned assembly language programs.
It was soon discovered that programming in assembly language required a great e)_____of intellectual effort and was error-prone.
In the 1950sFORTRAN, LISP, and Cobol whose f)_____are still in widespread use today were designed.
The period from the late 1960s to the late 1970s brought a g)_____flowering of programming languages.
Most of the major language h)______now in use were invented in this period.
The 1980s were years of i)_____consolidation.
The United States government standardized Ada, a systems programming language intended j)____use by defense contractors.
In Japan k)_____elsewhere, vast sums were spent investigating so-called "fifth generation" languages that incorporated logic programming constructs.
l)_____, one important new trend in language design was an increased focus on programming for large-scale systems through the use of modules, or large-scale organizational units of code.
The rapid growth m)_____the Internet in the mid-1990's was the next major historic event in programming languages.
By opening n)_____a radically new platform for computer systems, the Internet created an opportunity for new languages o)_____be adopted.
Programming p)_____evolution continues, in both industry and research.
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