This dimension groups programming languages by the year they were first released. Wikipedia notes that "early programming languages were closely tied to the hardware," while "modern languages often hide hardware details via abstraction," a shift that unfolded language by language over many release years. Browsing by first released lets a visitor compare languages that launched in the same period.
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Era of Emergence First Released
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1. Wikipedia: APL (programming language)
Wikimedia FoundationAPL (programming language), History sectionQuote, APL (programming language), History section
In 1960, he began work for IBM where he developed this notation with Adin Falkoff and published it in his book A Programming Language in 1962.
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