Java How to Program (early objects), 9/e

1.8 Programming Languages

In this section, we provide brief comments on several popular programming languages (Fig. 1.5). In the next section we introduce Java.

Fig. 1.5 Other programming languages.

Programming language	Description
Fortran	Fortran (FORmula TRANslator) was developed by IBM Corporation in the mid-1950s to be used for scientific and engineering applications that require complex mathematical computations. It’s still widely used and its latest versions are object oriented.
COBOL	COBOL (COmmon Business Oriented Language) was developed in the late 1950s by computer manufacturers, the U.S. government and industrial computer users based on a language developed by Grace Hopper, a career U.S. Navy officer and computer scientist. ...