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Java How to Program, Early Objects, 11th Edition
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Java How to Program, Early Objects, 11th Edition

by Paul J. Deitel, Harvey Deitel
June 2017
Beginner
1296 pages
69h 23m
English
Pearson
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1.7 Programming Languages

Figure 1.6 provides brief comments on several popular programming languages. In the next section, we introduce Java.

Fig. 1.5

Programming language Description
Ada Ada, based on Pascal, was developed under the sponsorship of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) during the 1970s and early 1980s. The DOD wanted a single language that would fill most of its needs. The Pascal-based language was named after Lady Ada Lovelace, daughter of the poet Lord Byron. She’s credited with writing the world’s first computer program in the early 1800s (for the Analytical Engine mechanical computing device designed by Charles Babbage). Ada also supports object-oriented programming.
Basic Basic was developed in the 1960s at Dartmouth ...
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ISBN: 9780134751962