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C.7
HISTORY *
* Mine is just a subset of the book’s.
FORTRAN 1954-57 Numeric
ALGOL 60 1958-60 Numeric
COBOL 1959-60 Business
APL 1956-60 Vectors
LISP 1956-62 Symbolic
SNOBOL4 1962-66 Strings
PL/1 1963-64 General
BASIC 1964 Educational
Pascal 1971 Educational
PROLOG 1972 AI (rules)
C 1972 Systems/General
Scheme 1975 Educational
Ada 1979 General
Smalltalk 1971-80 Objects
C++ 1984 Objects
CLOS 1988 Objects/Lisp
Perl 1990 Scripting
Java 1995 Objects/Networks
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