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A brief history of C/C++ programming languages

A brief history of C/C++ programming languages

Source: lemire.me

Initially, we had languages like Fortran (1957), Pascal (1970), and C (1972). Fortran was designed for number crunching and scientific computing. Pascal was restrictive with respect to low-level access (it was deliberately "safe", as meant for teaching structured programming). So C won out as a language that allowed low-level/unsafe programming (pointer arithmetic, direct memory access) … Continue reading A brief history of C/C++ programming languages

Linked is a handy little trip down memory lane. Kind of an evolutionary tree of programming languages over the last 30 years.

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