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A brief history of programming languages

Talkat Lambda Days 2016 · 2016-02-25..02-26· [javascript]

speaker

name:Andrea Magnorsky

website:https://roundcrisis.com

resources

video:https://youtu.be/3Z27n_ReTI8

slides:none on file

summary

Claims that matter: that lambda calculus equals Turing machines (1936–37) and that early tools actually built include Grace Hopper’s A-0 compiler and Flow-matic code sample and Backus’s Fortran. The talk lists concrete languages, notes around 3,000 languages now, shows COBOL’s committee-driven standardization and Erlang (1986) implementing the actor model for resilient systems, and points to live code examples (Lisp, APL, ML, Haskell) so viewers can judge what actually worked.

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