Question

Give a brief history of programming, including at least three milestones related to the advancement or development of programming.

Answer 1

Answer: 1. 1953: FORTRAN, the first commercially available programming language, is developed.

- Developed by John Backus and IBM.

- Originally developed for scientific computations.

- Currently used to rank the world's fastest supercomputers.

2. 1972: The C programming language is developed.

- Developed by Dennis Ritchie.

- Developed to encourage cross-platform programming.

3. 1989: The Python programming language is first implemented.

- Originally created and developed by Guido van Rossum.

- Currently developed by the non-profit Python Software Foundation.

- Emphasizes code readability.

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