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Basic is an earlier programming language called BASIC that was invented by Dartmouth College
professors John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz. Visual Basic is often referred to using just the
initials; VB. Visual Basic is easily the most widely used computer programming system in the
history of software.
C
The C programming language is also a high-level programming language developed by Dennis
Ritchie and Brian Kernighan at Bell Labs in 1972 from an almost unknown language named B.
The first major program written in C was the Unix operating system. Below is an example of a C
program that prints Hello World! after it's been compiled.
#include <stdio.h>
main()
{
printf ("Hello World!\n");
}
HTML
HTML was developed by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990. HTML is short form for HyperText Markup
Language. It is used to create web pages on the World Wide Web that contains hyperlinks to
other pages. Every web page you see on the Internet contains HTML code that helps to format
and show text and images in an easy to read format.
JAVA Script
JAVA Script was originally developed by Brendan Eich and known as LiveScript. It was later
renamed to JAVA Script in 1995. Below is a basic example of a JAVA Script that prints Hello
World!.
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<! -- Hide from old browsers

document.write('Hello World!');
// Stop hide -->
</SCRIPT>

FORTRAN
FORTRAN stands for FORmula TRANslator. It was one of the first programming languages.
FORTRAN began being created in 1954 by members of the IBM team, was first introduced to
the public 15 October 15, 1956.
Processing or Computer Programs
High Level Languages are designed, taking into mind the ease for the programmers. These

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