Evolution of Programming Languages
Generations
Most books and articles on history of programming languages tend to discuss languages in term of generations.This is useful arrangement for classifying languages by age.I agree that whatever a few of we ‘more mature’ software engineers get together, we cannot ever seem to agree on wht constitutes the generation of computer languages.We know that Formula Translation (FORTRAN) was probably a first-generation languges.Does that make FORTRAN 77 and WatFor second languages?Is the newest FORTRAN (FORTRAN 90) third or fourth generation?How about commom Bussiness-Oriented Languages (COBAL)?It has been arround since 1959, and yet COBAL 2000 will be an object-oriented(OO)COBAL.Does this make it fourth generation or is it still first generation?

First Generation
The first generation programming languages is machine language,which required the use of binary symbols (0s and 1s).Because this is the language of the CPU,text file hat is......

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