This dimension names the earlier language that a specific programming language was directly influenced by or replaced. Wikipedia notes that "modern languages often hide hardware details via abstraction in an effort to enable better software with less effort" than the languages that came before them. Browsing this way traces a language back to the predecessor it grew out of.
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1. Wikipedia: Assembly language
WikipediaAssembly language, History sectionQuote, Assembly language, History section
The first assembly code in which a language is used to represent machine code instructions is found in Andrew Donald Booth and Kathleen H.V. Britten's 1947 work, Coding for A.R.C.
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