History of programming languages

mid 40's	early digital computers
	explicit hardware instructions	assembler mnemonics
mid 50's	First-generation languages
	data as arithmetic numbers	FORTRAN I, ALGOL 58
late 50's	Procedural languages
	subroutines Say what you mean (Kernighan)	FORTRAN II, Lisp, BASIC
late 60's	Structured programming
	data as conceptual structures GoTo considered harmful (Dijkstra)	Pascal, C
mid 70's	Modular programming
	interface, data encapsulation/hiding	Modula, Oberon
mid 80's	Object-oriented programming
	class inheritance, polymorphism	C++, Java, Ada, C# (Python, Perl 5, JavaScript)