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==Language List==
==Language List==
According to LangPop <ref>{{cite web
According to LangPop <ref>{{cite web
| url = http://www.langpop.com/
| url = http://www.langpop.com/
| title = Programming Language Popularity
| title = Programming Language Popularity
:Visual Basic
:Visual Basic
According to Professor Alfred V. Aho <ref>{{cite web
| url = www1.cs.columbia.edu/~sedwards/classes/2002/w4995-02/aho.pdf
| title = Trends in Programming Language Design
| accessdate = 2012-03-13}}</ref> The most influential high-level programming languages have been (in approximate order of development):
:FORTRAN showed that a useful high-level language was possible.
:COBOL provided a language especially for business use.
:LISP provided a language suitable for symbol processing.
:Algol 60 was the first block-structured language and set a new standard in language definition (Backus-Naur form)
:BASIC was the first language used interactively with multiple simultaneous users.
:Simula 67 was the first object-oriented language.
:[[C]] showed that operating systems and compilers could be written in a high-level language.
Most of the program code in use today is written in C, C++, COBOL, and Java. Other popular general-purpose languages include BASIC, Pascal, and C#. There are literally thousands of programming languages, although many of them are simply variants of others. Variants are called '''dialects'''. Thus, Visual BASIC is a dialect of BASIC.
Most of the program code in use today is written in C, C++, COBOL, and Java. Other popular general-purpose languages include BASIC, Pascal, and C#. There are literally thousands of programming languages, although many of them are simply variants of others. Variants are called '''dialects'''. Thus, Visual BASIC is a dialect of BASIC.