For the rest of the history of modern programming languages -- because C was really just the beginning! -- check out the infographic below. You can click it to zoom in.

Computers need programming languages to function. That’s just a simple fact of life. However, these languages didn’t just spring up out of nowhere. They were developed by people for explicit ...

The Fortran branch, for example, seems to be merging with ... for language designers to think about where the evolution of programming languages is likely to lead, because they can steer accordingly.

The programming ... languages that have built the information technology infrastructure we have today. What will 2012 and beyond bring? We’re pretty sure quite a bit, and the evolution of ...

The Java language ... evolution of Java. The first pressure is created by the increased demand for programmers and the pressure to create programs faster and with fewer errors. This pressure was the ...

By the time a new language feature becomes a standard, a dozen new features have been already implemented. For example, in the early 1980s, dBASE became a de facto standard business programming ...

How have programming languages evolved over the past 50 years? How have the early languages influenced later versions, and how are they still used today? How have programming languages evolved ...