Question

Explain the history of programming language

Answer 1

Even though a huge number of computer languages exist, the earliest computers were programmed in binary so the set of instructions was just a series of 0 and 1. Computer languages are a fairly new field, since the first high-level languages were written in the 1950s, around the time computers were invented. Computer programming languages were predated in turn by paper tapes and punch cards which held complicated weaving patterns for use in mechanized looms. Later, Charles Babbage started building a computer known as the Analytical Machine. In the 20th century, Herman Hollerith invented the Tabulating Machine. His machine tabulators were used to speed up the counting and sorting of punch cards. In the early 1940s J. Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly started building the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator), which was completed by 1946.