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Even if the first computers in the modern sense, and therefore the first programming languages, appeared only at the end of the 1940s, since then there have many hundreds (if not thousands) of languages have been defined. In the previous chapters of this book we have sought to identify the most important design and implementation characteristics that are common to large classes of contemporary languages. In this last chapter, we seek to understand what were the reasons that lead, in the last sixty years, to the affirmation of these characteristics and, therefore, to the success of some languages and the disappearance of many others.
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Gabbrielli, M., Martini, S. (2010). A Short Historical Perspective. In: Programming Languages: Principles and Paradigms. Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-914-5_13
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