Home›Programming Languages›First Released›By Decade›1980sBrowse By1980sThis 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. 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