Chapter 2 - Evolution of Major PLs

2.3 IBM 704 & Fortran

• Fortran
  • first widely used language

2.5 Algol 60

• first machine independent language

2.11 Orthogonal Design: Algol 68

2.12 Descendants of the Algols

• C
• Pascal

2.15 OOP Smalltalk

2.16 C++

2.17 Java

• Designed for consumer electronics
• Also impacted web dev