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Popular Programming Languages which resulted in a whole paradigm shift and changed the way we program our problems. Here are some of the photos of the creators of these Programming languges. Hope you enjoy them: And yes, if you are more interested then you can read the history of how these languages were created. Links are provided with each title.

Programming languages, believe it or not, have existed for over 200 years, since the invention of the punch-card-programmable Jacquard loom. It wasn't a programming language in the modern sense — there was no computation and no logic — but it started a cascade that would eventually lead to Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, and Ada Lovelace's 1842 deconstruction of his work which led to the first computer program.

In August of 1976 Joseph Weisbecker introduced a new microcomputer to the world in the pages of Popular Electronics magazine. The COSMAC ELF was conceived as a hobbyist computer, as bare-bones as any of the day. The original ELF project featured:

HUMAN COMPUTING "Can you do addition?" the White queen asked. "What's one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?" --- Lewis Carroll, Alice Through the Looking-Glass. The word "computer" is often thought to have been coined with the advent of the first electronic computer in 1946. Actually, according to Webster's dictionary, the earliest recorded use of "computer" came exactly 300 years earlier, in 1646.

While INTERCAL marks a watershed in the history of esoteric programming languages, it is by no means the first of the genre. In fact its main serious effect is the recognition that languages with screwy syntax and semantics might be objects worthy of study in their own right. But, there were esoteric programming languages in the 1960s and even earlier.

LISP (List Processing) is not simply a programming lanuage unique among all programming languages; it is a realization of a theoretical construction in the area of mathematical logic by Alonzo Church known as the lambda calculus of recursive functions. LISP is the physical relaization of this abstract computational tool, and was created by John McCarthy in the years 1956-1958. Thus, it is also one of the oldest and enduring programming languages, having only FORTRAN as rival. Though most modern implementations of LISP are very large languages with "environment lists" for saving function definitions and variable values, hundreds of functions, hence also of reserved words, additional data types such as numericals, strings, arrays, structures, macros, etc., the fundamentals are very few and can be used to display the unique thought processes that are involved in LISP programming. These additions are more a matter of convenience for the programmer.

Wondering why Ruby is so popular? Its fans call it a beautiful, artful language. And yet, they say it’s handy and practical. What gives?

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Abstract. Since its inception, in 1993, the Lua programming language has gone far beyond our most optimistic expectations. In this paper, we describe the trajectory of Lua, from its creation as an in-house language for two specific projects, until Lua 4.0, released in November 2000. We discuss the evolution of some of its concepts and the main landmarks in its implementation.

Because programming languages are at the core of how we communicate with machines, it is important that programmers understand a little bit about the history and evolution of programming languages. This helps to evaluate which languages to use for a project and also to develop new little languages.