November 2002
Beginner
432 pages
11h 44m
English
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Summary
As programming languages mature, they become easier to use. Most of today's programming languages include integrated environments and offer support for structured programming. Today's graphical user interfaces such as Microsoft Windows require more complex programming tools, but easy-to-use languages such as Visual Basic are easing even beginning programmers into the graphical world of programming.
Modern-day programming languages offer tremendous improvements over previous languages. They are more structured and offer integrated programming environments.
Pascal was a good general-purpose programming language that boomed during the 1970s and declined in use in the 1980s.
C, developed by Bell Laboratories, is a highly efficient, high low-level ...