08-25-2022, 11:39 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-25-2022, 11:43 PM by Kernelpanic.)
There is no "most popular programming language" in this sense. Computer languages have to have a purpose, that's their most important task.
There used to be "Thinking in Forth", nice, I tried it out briefly -- but this programming language was developed for controlling large telescopes. The usual "Hello World" is also possible with it.
Cobol is the language for administration: employees, salary, holidays, and so on.
The programming language C is so near to the system that only assembler is most near - except "00100110011. . ." and so on. Linux is programmed in C, and in Windows, C and C++ share the source code.
Fortran is for the rockets - Modula was supposed to replace Fortran one day, but apparently there was nobody there, and so Fortran was simply further developed in order to be able to continue using the X libraries for this. And who still knows Modula today?
And so on. . .
Oh yes, the programming language that enabled the first moon landing was not an assembler either. Margaret Hamilton:
Margaret Hamilton and the first moon landing
There used to be "Thinking in Forth", nice, I tried it out briefly -- but this programming language was developed for controlling large telescopes. The usual "Hello World" is also possible with it.
Cobol is the language for administration: employees, salary, holidays, and so on.
The programming language C is so near to the system that only assembler is most near - except "00100110011. . ." and so on. Linux is programmed in C, and in Windows, C and C++ share the source code.
Fortran is for the rockets - Modula was supposed to replace Fortran one day, but apparently there was nobody there, and so Fortran was simply further developed in order to be able to continue using the X libraries for this. And who still knows Modula today?
And so on. . .
Oh yes, the programming language that enabled the first moon landing was not an assembler either. Margaret Hamilton:
Margaret Hamilton and the first moon landing