The Brief History of Programming Languages

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Correction: The first date for the algorithm of the analytical machine should be closer to the mid 1830's, not 1883; as both Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage were no longer around during that year. The source I was referring to was incorrect.
As someone famous once said somewhere; to know where you are going, you have to know where you have been. Therefore, whether you're studying computer science in college, you're a programming language enthusiast or a history buff; the brief history of programming languages will satisfy your unquenchable thirst for knowledge (maybe).
Computer programming languages have evolved greatly over time (as well as the computer itself). From Fortran to Python and Basic to Swift, programming languages have added and taken away features for decades. Throughout this video, I give a brief summary of a majority of the most influential programming languages over the decades.
Comment down below what your favorite programming language is!
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[@ByteOfMichael]

Just released a new History of Programming Languages (2010s Edition): kzbin.info/www/bejne/aWO5dpSBqqeam5I

[@anandmuley2577]

Appreciated brother ..... a very densely knowledgeable video.

[@kcvinu]

Both these videos missed D & Nim & Odin.

[@They0ungTravler]

Fun fact: C# used to be C++++ (since C++ was an iteration from C, C# was an iteration from C++)

[@decidev]

lol I can see why they changed it. Anymore and it would’ve been C++++++

[@Vivacior]

C# was not directly derived from C++. C# was developed from scratch by Anders Hejlsberg at Microsoft, taking the best features of several languages: C, J++, and Turbo Pascal (amongst others). The original code name was COOL - C-like Object Oriented Language. It’s easy to come up to speed with if you’re familiar with any of the Java/C languages*. It’s also the language of choice for Unity game programming. Cheers! *(not JavaScript, which is a completely different animal)

[@They0ungTravler]

@@Vivacior I know it was not derived directly, but the finalized naming convention was :)

[@hawk992]

@@Vivacior Useless reply, since the NAME was pointed out and not the CONTENT of the language.

[@benamiel6180]

That’s why they used the sharp sign. It’s four plusses near eachother

[@Vivacior]

In 1991 engineering school, we had to learn FORTRAN. It was awful - syntax hell on old green-screen terminals and tractor-fed printers in the computer lab. Then, the final week, our professor walked us through a comparison with C. It was like night and day. I was like, “Why did we waste an entire semester learning this archaic crap?!!!”

[@ByteOfMichael]

Hahah maybe he wanted you to appreciate the struggle

[@WielkiKaleson]

@Mike WikiFortran is not low level.

[@__nav]

in 2003 we had to learn fortran :(

[@timgrei1730]

We learned Delphi in school in ~2011.

[@gammyhorse]

@@timgrei1730 Object Pascal is a way better language under the hood than C/C++ that dominates the industry. What an irony, but it is what it is. Congrats to your school by the way.

[@leuat]

Fun fact: What is displayed in the terminator vision *is't* COBOL, but (Apple2 II) MOS6502 assembly code (complete with some zero page definitions)

[@InventorZahran]

7:23 Minecraft: Bedrock Edition (which is played on consoles, tablets, smartphones, and Windows 10) is in fact written in C++. It performs much better on lower-powered hardware, compared to the original Java-based Minecraft.

[@artemis4771]

It's good thing for people who want to enjoy minecraft with not so beffy pc build

[@OHomemLevelUp]

Is Bedrock Edition the current one tho ?

[@michelangeloobrien]

@@OHomemLevelUp Both Java and Bedrock are currently developed.

[@nulcow]

It's also multithreaded and uses DirectX instead of OpenGL I think.

[@They0ungTravler]

The Java edition also isn’t as optimized as the C++ version

[@aaronspeedy7780]

1:18 Neither is assembly. Assembly is a general term for a language that is just readable machine code 2:34 Grace Hopper did not design COBOL, a committee did. She designed a language called FLOW-MATIC and the committee based COBOL off of that

[@ByteOfMichael]

Thanks for the notes!

[@hash8944]

I thought that python was created recently. it's older than Java XD

[@erikaslopro664]

Dumbass

[@ethanminja4706]

@@erikaslopro664 Shut the fuck up, we all make mistakes, it's not like you've never made some.

[@MintyLime703]

@@erikaslopro664 i feel bad for you

[@philippebaillargeon5204]

It's because python wasn't very popular when it came out and Java was more popular

[@solarwater3298]

lol

[@davidealessandri2893]

My english teacher made my class watch this video to learn about programming languages, but then she asked us what 4chan was. I'll just say that she said we needed to censor that detail and move on and we had a good laugh. Thank you for that

[@ByteOfMichael]

Haha glad I could give you guys a laugh!

[@matthewp.4303]

That was the reason I couldn't use this video to show to a group of kids learning programming. Remove it and you get more viewers, but fewer laughs...

[@MrMirville]

You forget APL and PL/1 : they were once the two most used by IBM, the first for interactive accounting the second as a coalescence of COBOL, FORTRAN and ALGOL that was supposed to replace them all.

[@mounsterchef]

Yeah, APL, B, VHDL, Verilog, Rust, Kotlin, Chisel...

[@KirboFrrr]

you are a live saver man, i had no idea how i was going to find all the research for my paper in time but this video gave me every piece of info to me down to the most minuet detail

[@theathletics5004]

Dude this was very good! Like, seriously, how do you not have more subs than this?

[@ByteOfMichael]

Thanks my man!

[@shenghongzhong]

this is an amazing video! thanks for making it!

[@ByteOfMichael]

Thanks and glad you liked it!

[@nayhoum9086]

This video is AMAZING !!!! Excellent work man you're the best

[@ByteOfMichael]

Thanks so much!

[@markelowitz8948]

I watched several videos on the history of programming languages, and I am surprised that none of them mentioned a language called Prolog. Prolog was excellent in the field of medical diagnostics, and other AI applications that required significant man-machine interface.

[@stephenbranley91]

I had to learn prolog at university. Now, 20 years later, I still don't understand it.

[@alfieqashwa5257]

No Rust? Oh man.... u know history but don't know the future.

[@RonnieAttema]

Also sad that Julia is missing

[@sundaymanali5854]

came for rust lol

[@helenamaijaavotina4556]

This was an amazing video man, helped me so much to make my presentation on programming languages for school. Super concise and informative

[@ByteOfMichael]

Aye thanks, and glad you liked it!

[@TheCrashDrK]

Greetings from Mexico Our teacher just put this video during the coding class and it was a huge and funny work, hope you get more subscribers soon. I'm in.

[@ByteOfMichael]

Hey there! Thanks so much and glad you liked it!

[@00infinity39]

it's really a beautiful video in all aspect. great job && tnx

[@ByteOfMichael]

Thank you so much for the kind words!

[@so_honeypark8951]

I'm a newbie just started to study programming. This video is very interesting! :)

[@ByteOfMichael]

Glad it was helpful! Good luck!

[@Pmc07AyeUrDa]

Great video! The Australian accent at the end was spot on 👌

[@ByteOfMichael]

Aye thanks man!

[@romualdadjimagbe2768]

I love the video, well done and thanks.🤛🤛

[@hughdismuke4703]

Thanks for the corrections at the end of the video. That helps! I would've been walking around not knowing what I was talking about. I had to go over sections of this video several times because of the confusion. I didn't know if you were joking about something or not and so paid extra attention. I don't get the British thing but whatever. Nothing wrong with making something fun I guess. I learned some things today is what counts.

[@zoeybeh2540]

This is a really great video ^^

[@ByteOfMichael]

Thanks!

[@BoMbaSteR]

Our professor assigned to us a homework to summarize your clip. Although, it is a 15+ minutes to watch, but it takes more than one hour to watch, listen and summarize "The Brief History of Programming Languages". To be honest, till the mid of the clip, I had feeling of hate towards you! Later on, when I reached the end, also I felt so relieve, I recognized how massive the effort you spent to summarize the history. So, thank you so much and I liked it :) Cheers!

[@ByteOfMichael]

Hahaha well I'm glad you don't hate me! Ya it was probably the video that took me the absolute longest to make and I wasn't great at video editing at the time! But I'm glad you liked it and hopefully the homework wasn't too bad!

[@TigerPrawn_]

I'm looking for videos that explain the history of the purpose and function of programming languages and how they were able to do new things over time, rather than a list of all the ones that were invented. Anyone got any tips?

[@alexk6125]

Great video! Thank you)

[@jordenzie]

killed it man!

[@ByteOfMichael]

Thanks dude!

[@frexwelltechnologies1801]

Your presentation style is phenomenal, come and relieve our lecturer ;)

[@ByteOfMichael]

hahah thanks so much!

[@tdman]

After Groovy’s 2003, I thought the next would be Microsoft’s F# (2005), a fusion of .NET OOP and the (noble) functional programming paradigm.

[@trevorsatori316]

This is dope but I was wondering how they put the algorithm on the computer. Like how Tf did someone start saudering metal into a board than from there start typing on the pc? I know this is noobie but this baffles me

[@ByteOfMichael]

Haha it all just boils down to switches being either on or off!

[@mecharenastuff]

I second ya Trevor!

[@mecharenastuff]

@@mr.factaid9305 Did you eventually learn how it all works?

[@SacTownSoundscapes]

you just got a new sub

[@ByteOfMichael]

Aye thanks!!

[@antonnym214]

I have programmed professionally in APL, BASIC, and 8080 and Z-80 Assembly Language. I have designed two languages, one that programmed each of 5 robots in a maze environment, called R-code, and the other called LIM, for Limited Instruction Model, which has only 26 reserved words. Correction for you: The terminator visual display was not cobol. It was 6502 Assembly. All good wishes.

[@ibrahimylmaz8378]

great video mate. you deserve million of subs.

[@ByteOfMichael]

haha thanks!

[@michaelmartin4383]

Just a fact check. A low level language is a language like "machine code" which is the closest you can get to the computes own language. A high level language is something like Basic or C++. Which is written using user-friendly English language to make it easier for people will lees tech skills to write. Something like C++ or Assembly language is run through a compiler which converts the English code into machine code.

[@BM-jy6cb]

Technically, Assembly language is run through an assembler, not a compiler 😜

[@bsdooby]

What about Zuse's Plankalkül? It was never implemented, but could be regarded as one of the earliest Programming Languages.

[@rocirentama6880]

Thanks man!

[@ByteOfMichael]

Happy to help!

[@InventorZahran]

5:32 Narrator: "During the 1980's, C began to gain traction..." The video: **shows an image of a traction engine**

[@rudrikavyas7195]

Very nice explanation sir and thank you sir 👍

[@ByteOfMichael]

Appreciate it!

[@rudrikavyas7195]

Really sir very good explanation and your concept are very clearly and good thank you sir

[@HittyLee]

i like how you say jokes to make the video not boring

[@ByteOfMichael]

Programming languages can only be so entertaining haha

[@mannhansen9337]

Nice video. You forgot to mention Simula. Object Oriented language developed i Norway in 1967.

[@kjell-e]

At the university I created some small Simula programs just for fun.

[@programmingwithsathyamar3464]

Awesome stuff

[@ByteOfMichael]

Thanks a lot!

[@apoilgun8342]

Wish to see Kotlin as well.. great video anyway man good job!

[@Sam-gd4xp]

You forgot to mention Rust language. Ment to replace c++, created in 2006 by Graydon Hoare (at the time, employee of Mozila labs) Graydon in 2014 created Swift for Apple ;) There is also simmilar low spec language named Zig. You also forgot to mention Microsofts fellow danish engineer named Anders Hejlsberg, when working for Borland, developed Turbo-Pascal and in 1995 Delphi 1.0, in 2000, invented and developed C# and DotNet enviroment, in 2012 invented TypeScript. Just to let you know. ;)

[@minatonamikaze2637]

Rust is absolute perfection, appart from the steep learning curve it can do pretty much anything.

[@mechamania]

More likely “decided not to include it,” as opposed to “forgot.” For instance, I don’t remember seeing anything in the Lisp, Logo, APL, ISETL, PILOT, or SuperPILOT, etc. area, nor any dialect of BASIC-such as Microsoft Extended BASIC (or MEB II)-minus Visual BASIC. At least 10 languages shown on the chart of “popular languages” didn’t get a mention. If the case were that he’d “forgotten” those few languages, a very peculiar language to be missing, here, is *the most famous (and likely “important”) computer programming language ever made:* _HTML_ (where the “L” stands for... ). There are literally thousands of languages not included here - hence “brief history,” in the video’s title. If every programming language ever made that had any kind of “success” were to have been discussed, in this video, it would be weeks long...

[@katrinabryce]

@@mechamania I would argue that Excel is the most important programming language ever made.

[@swedishpsychopath8795]

So the most important invention in the early days, Object Oriented programming (Simula, 1967 in Norway) wasn't worth mentioning?

[@derickyyy]

Cool video. Nice job

[@ByteOfMichael]

Thanks!

[@davidvincent8929]

Slightly surprised by the intro by the hero.

[@Navisworker]

Mind Blowing. All I knew was ones and zeros before this.

[@rharcha8878]

Computer Chronicles clips in the background made me smile.

[@lakshyapachkhede]

Very good explanation

[@tootyrnt5533]

Great editing and very informative! Although a bit sad you didn't include Kotlin 🥺

[@ByteOfMichael]

Thanks! And don’t worry, I’m gonna create a part 2!

[@josephgaviota]

Very interesting, thank you for that.

[@ByteOfMichael]

Glad you liked it!

[@josephgaviota]

@@ByteOfMichael I watched again today, and enjoyed it again. I was surprised to learn (at 1:36) that 4chan, er, Fortran, was invented in the year of my birth. For some reason, I really like seeing snippets of code from various languages. You included a lot of those, but for ME (and I know it's NOT all about me), I would have had those hang on the screen for a few more seconds. ALSO, Python is my current language of choice, and I'm developing on a complete internal "quote to cash" system for a mid-sized networking company. Since I know how to configure routers, it's a great fit, since I understand what they're doing. (Bonus points, the owner of the country was raised in UK, so Monty Python is one of his FAVORITE references.) I never learned Perl, but with 30 years of Korn/Bash scripting, I'm sure I could learn it fast; but I think it's now a dead language. (thus, I stick w/Python) Thank you again for your efforts.

[@onichan6897]

Rust would be cool to include. It was the first to introduce ownership model in managing resources.

[@airangel1034]

But still no one questions the fact why they don’t teach the source knowledge in which these multiple languages derive from🧐IBM I’m coming for you✨🧚🏾‍♀️

[@yash1152]

11:26 12:19 classification quadrants for languages based on "type system"

[@christhomas4739]

apparently there are now 15 billion devices running java. damn.

[@pedropellegrina802]

One thing tho @marselluh, i actually found some contradictive statements. Some say FORTRAN was the first programming language and some say it was Assembly. Why do you consider assembly ?

[@ishakbekhti6175]

year. I want to get into making soft on desktop because it offers more features but I have just been preferring the softow of mobile apps

[@manojsaravana3877]

Thank you

[@pjf7044]

Good job

[@ByteOfMichael]

Thanks!

[@nikolayzapryanoff1032]

Those jokes had me dying XD

[@ByteOfMichael]

Hahah appreciate it!

[@BM-jy6cb]

Ha ha to the English accent at the end - not bad, but sounds more Australian! I don't get involved in new languages and client side frameworks anymore, I just got fed up with investing so much time only for them to go out of fashion a few years later, security holes, and breaking changes in newer versions requiring a rewrite to fix them.

[@oglothenerd]

Bro seriously left out Rust. (Most loved language since 2016.)

[@aoeu256]

What about Frege's set theory -> the algorithms (remember Euclid) -> Church's Lambda Calculus. Changing code on the fly was pioneered by Lisp not Smalltalk... Also Haskell is mainly used for programming language research, finance, and writing compilers, its not used for math at all...

[@ByteOfMichael]

Thanks for the extra info! Though on Haskell’s website it does say that it’s rising in popularity for mathematicians (at the time) wiki.haskell.org/Haskell_and_mathematics

[@spikeevans1488]

I'm curious why you omitted PL/I and RUST. Another minor, but very different language, was FORTH. Also a widely used language in the manufacturing sector i gcode; although it is rarely programmed directly anymore but is generated by CAD/CAM systems.

[@ishan1127]

the narration is hilarious

[@IamPyu-v]

those car explosions in the background...

[@Lim95]

2:50: ah, yes, COBOL, with LEA, STA, ORG, and other 6502 assembly instructions

[@arminulrich2319]

0:50 Conrad Zuse's Plankalkül is missing: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankalk%C3%BCl

[@philp3512]

Not to argue with this wonderful video, but Grace Hopper invented the compiler.

[@Top1089]

Thanks sir

[@xplax24]

Wow I definitely thought Rust was going to be the last one. Didn't think Swift would be. But I love Swift so that's cool XD

[@dariangrace3403]

I like your editing :)

[@ByteOfMichael]

Thank you so much!

[@Byynx]

Is was not cobol that was used in the Terminator movie but instead the assembly language of the 6502 processor.

[@muser7935]

Wow as a beginner i found this video very useful

[@satviksingh8991]

Hey, I got into ERC in ECE major for this fall

[@ByteOfMichael]

Congrats! It’s gonna be a great time!

[@satviksingh8991]

@@ByteOfMichael can you advise me on the IDEA program. I am an international student from India

[@ByteOfMichael]

I’m not super familiar on the program, I just know that’s you’d act as an ambassador for the Jacobs school of engineering if you were an IDEA scholar. I’d probably check out the UCSD website or email the Jacobs school of engineering for more information! Hope this helps!

[@satviksingh8991]

@@ByteOfMichael they will probably take the course online this time. But I am not sure how will they manage to teach ece online. Moreover, I cannot apply for it as they have removed it momentarily. Anyway, how easy is it to become an IDEA scholar

[@ByteOfMichael]

I don’t know anyone who is currently an IDEA scholar so I’m not sure how hard the application process is, I’d check out jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/idea/programs/scholars.shtml for some useful information!

[@WordDefinition]

So as a beginner student what language should i choose for my career

[@ethanminja4706]

Wait, one question, what video editing software do you use?

[@ByteOfMichael]

I use davinci resolve!

[@Garfield_Minecraft]

10 X = 0 20 PRINT "HELLO WORLD!" 30 X = X+1 40 IF X=10 GOTO 100 50 IF X

[@manuelretamozo9278]

Great video! thank you very much. Regards and Jesus' Blessings from Lima Peru

[@10p_b3_cruzyumie.6]

terminator bot is a walking atm machine

[@ByteOfMichael]

haha basically

[@Forcoy]

I'm a bit sad you didn't mention lua, but oh well!

[@leeblevins6698]

Practical Extraction and Report Language (PERL)

[@argonwheatbelly637]

Although that's a backronym, I still make heavy use of perl's report generation features.

[@mansodev]

No Lua? tons of games and man hours were saved because of Lua! Lua is heavily used in game development, and still is today

[@ByteOfMichael]

Ya I'm thinking of making a part 2, because there are so many other awesome languages I wasn't able to include!

[@nipunmihimal9092]

Thank you...!

[@ByteOfMichael]

No problem!

[@brandongovreau9218]

I'm only watching this to find out how to start from zero to create a programming language

[@minecraftus9504]

You explain with a hurmour, Like fortran you said first 4chan And b then c And c++ = c + image of class

[@uwuzote]

Cool, thanks a lot, but most loved for 5 years in row (or smth like that, don't remeber) Rust programming language created first appeared in 2010th;

[@dna1238]

Cool ! Thank You.

[@ByteOfMichael]

Glad you liked it!

[@yannickcadin7958]

What about Rust, Dart, Kotlin, Nim, Eiffel, Prolog, Erlang et so on?

[@SpittingMage]

funny, no mention of that one language where the whole internet runs on...erlang!

[@sirblueberrous146]

I'm very upset that scratch isn't on this list

[@nidhihanda4827]

i love python, very flexible , has lot of libraries

[@cyanuranus6456]

I Wish I Can Make My Own Programming Language Someday

[@cyanuranus6456]

Grace Hopper Created Cobol. But I've Been Wondering How did She Created Cobol

[@nialltracey2599]

Which version of Python is that? I've never seen "if a is/is not 5:" before, and it generates a syntax error in 3.9.6

[@simonmaracine4721]

It generates an error, because 5 is a literal.

[@OHomemLevelUp]

WAIT WAIT WAIT ASSEMBLY IS FROM 1954 ? AND THE FIRST ? SO COOL! DANG I'M LOOKING LIKE A CHILD WITH STARS ON THE EYES LMAO

[@yash1152]

9:39 6:14 matlab vs R - what's the difference?

[@chriswilliamoneil]

guess what language this is: var iNum1 , iProd : integer; iNum1 := 5; iProd := iNum1 * 10; redOutput.Lines.Add('Answer: ' + IntToStr(iProd)); heres a hint of the language: rad

[@denno815]

*heavy breathing *

[@yash1152]

11:22 HHVM - wow, what's that? opposite of LLVM ?