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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1. Wikipedia: Logic programming
WikipediaLogic programming, History sectionQuote, Logic programming, History section
The first Prolog program, also written in 1972 and implemented in Marseille, was a French question-answering system.
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