Assignment 1 (5%)
Research the history of the programming language assigned to you
(below) and write a short essay (1 page is sufficient, 2 pages is the
absolute maximum (12pt Times, if you are that particular)) covering
the following topics. Include a small program that computes
factorials (if there are multiple dialects of your language, make it
run under a current and widely used implementation of the language).
- When and how was the language created?
- Which major versions of the language exist?
- Which major ideas are incorporated into the language?
- How widely is it used? What are the major applications?
- Anything else that is interesting? Keep it short!
| Name | Language |
| Olivio, David | Fortran |
| Hadavi, Kara Leigh | Forth |
| Ductan, Kerline | C |
| Bethanis, Georgios | Prolog |
| Nwadike, Ugochukuu B. | Pascal |
| Guthrie, Brian Joseph | Ada |
| Del Rio, Heberto | Algol-68 |
| Toledo, Nicole Celine | LISP |
| Tappert, Andrew Scott | Haskell |
| Zaidi, Anila K. | Smalltalk |
| Walk-In | Perl |
| Olivia, Dario | Java |
Stephan
Schulz,schulz@cs.miami.edu, Thu Aug 22 13:35:31 EDT 2002