Question

1. Give a brief history of programming, including at least three milestones related to the advancement or development
of programming.

Answer 1

1. 1953: FORTRAN, the first commercially available programming language, is developed.
- Developed by John Backus and IBM.
- Originally developed for scientific computations.
- Currently used to rank the world's fastest supercomputers.

2. 1972: The C programming language is developed.
- Developed by Dennis Ritchie.
- Developed to encourage cross-platform programming.

3. 1989: The Python programming language is first implemented.
- Originally created and developed by Guido van Rossum.
- Currently developed by the non-profit Python Software Foundation.
- Emphasizes code readability.



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