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The Study of Foreign Language: Part 2
- Foreign language study overview continued with a focus on various programming languages like Fortran, LISP, ALGOL, and COBOL.
- Fortran, developed by IBM, was the first high-level programming language with a compiler and is still used in high-performance computing.
- LISP, designed for symbolic computations and AI research, introduced key computer science concepts and recursion.
- ALGOL aimed to standardize algorithm communication across researchers and influenced modern languages like C.
- COBOL, developed for business applications, was created to facilitate easier communication among non-technical users.
- Basic, an interpreted language for beginners, played a pivotal role in the early years of Microsoft and Apple.
- Smalltalk, the first popular OOP language, significantly impacted modern OOP concepts like inheritance and classes.
- C, a procedural language, influenced many modern languages and enabled software portability across different hardware systems.
- C does not inherently support OOP but can implement OOP concepts, and is widely used for its efficiency and portability.
- The influence of these historic languages has greatly shaped modern programming practices and languages used today.
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