From Fortran to Swift: The world's most important programming languages

John Leonard
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The fine art of telling machines what to do, from 1957 to 2015

From the time when they used to be loaded into gargantuan machines via punchcards and tape to the present day, individual programming languages have always had their passionate advocates - and equa...

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