PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

BY: SHUWARIWAP (ALBERIO, CHERRIE FAY M. / CORTEZ, CLARISSA MARIE D. / CRUZ, AIRA
MAE Y. / ESPIRITU, LORRIANE ANGEL C.)
VISUAL BASIC developed by Alan Cooper; a third-generation event-driven programming language and
integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft. Components: Menu bar, Toolbox bar, Project
Explorer, Properties window, Form Layout Window, Form designer, Object browser. History: VB 1.0
(1991), VB 2.0 (November 1992), VB 3.0 (1993), VB 4.0 (August 1995), VB 5.0 (February 1997), Visual
Basic 6.0 (mid 1998) improved in a number of areas, VB 6.0 has entered Microsofts non-supported phase
as of March 2008.
JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE designed by James Gosling; a general-purpose computer
programming language that is concurrent, class-based, object-oriented; originally called as OAK.
Characteristics: Platform independent, Simple, Object-oriented, Robust, Distributed, Dynamic, Secure.
History:James Gosling and his began designing the first version of Java (1991), Gosling realized that his
language would be ideal for developing a web browser (1994), first public implementation of Java 1.0
(1995), new J2 versions were renamed Java EE, Java ME, and Java SE for marketing purposes (2006)
C LANGUAGE - a general-purpose programming language; also called as system programming language
; the most widely used computer language; developed in 1972; created by Dennis M. Ritchie.
Characteristics: Portability, Modularity, Flexibility, Speed, Extensibility, Compactness, Case sensitive.
History: Basic Combined Programming Language (BCPL) (1960), Ken Thompson designed B language
(1970), Dennis Ritchie designed C language (1972), Unix and C gained wide popularity (1970s-1980s),
first edition of The C Programming Language published (1978), C standardized (1989), C adopted as an
international standard by ISO (1990), C11 (2007), Embedded C (2008)
C++ - middle - level programming language; has imperative, object-oriented and generic programming
features, while also providing facilities for low-level memory manipulation; runs on a variety of platforms,
such as Windows, Mac OS, and the various versions of UNIX; developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in
1979 at Bell Labs. Characteristics: Simple, Portable, Powerful, Platform dependent, Object oriented, Case
sensitive, Compiler based, Syntax based language, Use of Pointers. History: C with classes (1979), C++
(1983), first edition of The C++ Programming Language released (1985), C++ 2.0 (1989), C++ 11 standard
was released (2011)
TURBO C - a discontinued Integrated Development Environment and compiler for the C language from
Borland; first produced in 1987; noted for its integrated development environment, small size, fast compile
speed, comprehensive manuals and low price; a software development tool for writing programs in the C
language. Characteristics/Features: Integrated Assembler Language, Hardware level debugging, Multiple
Memory Models, Native Program development. History: Borland enjoyed considerable success with
their Turbo Pascal product (Early 1980s), Turbo Version 1.0 (May 13, 1987), Version 1.5, an improved
version of Turbo (January 1988), PureC, first blue-screen version (Late 1988), Turbo C++ 1.0 was
released (1990), Turbo C was re-released as freeware (2006)