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This 10 page paper gives an in-depth overview of the history of various computing systems and languages, focusing primarily on Fortran and all its various versions. Examples, research studies, quotes all included. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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computer would not have been possible without the ongoing decades of research which produced it. Most will not go any further than their daily email to understand that in order
for the many functions of their computer to happen, a whole new language had to be developed. This hasnt been done in centuries. As such, the development of computer languages,
ie. programming have led to some remarkable historical milestones. For example, the first computer graphics program was designed as far back as 1963 at MIT. Sutherlands Sketchpad system was
developed using the TX-2 computer and allowed the user to use a light pen to create simple graphic patterns such as circles and squares(Najork 1995). This program was innovative for
its time because it also allowed for a copying and pasting feature, Najork reports, which had never been done before. Why this serves as a milestone for computer programming was
that it had graphical interface and support for user-specified constraints(Najork 1995). Applied to other fields, what this allowed the user to do was to allow a user to develop more
complicated images and move them around in real time. Interestingly enough, Sutherland also had a brother who was involved in computer programming. A few years after Ivan Sutherland created the
Visual program, his brother William went a step further by using the same computer (TX-2) to create a data flow language(Najork). "The system allowed users to create, debug, and execute
dataflow diagrams in a unified visual environment (Najork, 1995). It would be nearly a decade later until innovation again struck. In 1975 David Canfield Smith would create a whole new
field of computer research called icon theory(Finzer, Gould 1984). His research project was called Pygmalion, and as such was a fair lady after all. What was amazing about this was
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