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: Simula
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As its name suggests, the first Simula version by 1962 was designed for doing simulations; Simula 67 though was designed to be a general-purpose programming language and provided the framework for many of the features of the object-oriented languages today.
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