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: Functional programming
WikipediaFunctional programming, History sectionQuote, Functional programming, History section
Information Processing Language (IPL), 1956, is sometimes cited as the first computer-based functional programming language.
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