How programming languages have evolved?
Between 1943 and 1945, Konrad Zuse, a German civil engineer, developed a programming language called Plankalkül. Even though this language was not implemented at the time, it held the foundations for what we now call high-level programming languages and was an inspiration for other languages that followed.
In late 1953, John W. Backus, an American computer scientist working at IBM, submitted a proposal to his superiors to develop an alternative to assembly. In 1954, Backus and his team published the first draft specification for this language, and in April 1957, the first version of the FORTRAN (the all caps naming standard later changed to Fortran) programming language was released. At first, this language was met with some skepticism as it could not produce programs that ran as fast as the ones written in Assembly. However, the fact that programs written in this new language had far fewer lines and were more comfortable to write and...
