Computer Confluence: Fourth Edition
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High-Level Languages (page 341)


Computer programming is an art form, like the creation of poetry or music.

-Donald E. Knuth, Author of The Art of Computer Programming


"High-level languages, which fall somewhere between natural human languages and precise machine languages, were developed during the early 1950s." Explore these languages with the following links.

 

Visual Basic Web Directory.
Featuring over 3,000 Visual Basic Web resources for source code, tutorials, vendors, and much more.

Pascal.
Home page of Borland Turbo Pascal 7.0.

Octave.
GNU Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numeric computations.

Yahoo's Index of Programming Languages.
Numerous links to specific languages.

Notes on Fortran.
User notes on Fortran programming.

The Flexus COBOL homepage.
This page compiles information and links about COBOL.

The COBOL Foundation.
Distributes information on the COBOL industry to organizations and individuals.

An Introduction and Tutorial for Common Lisp.
An online tutorial in LISP offered by Johns Hopkins University. This page includes information about LISP concepts, and links to other LISP resources.

LISP History.
A set of papers on the development of LISP and its relationship to artificial intelligence.

The BASIC Archives.
A wealth of information on BASIC, including tutorials on several different BASICs.

An Introduction to C Programming.
An online tutorial for C Programming.

The Source of Java Technology.
Sun's official Java information source web site.

Ada Home: The Web Site for ADA.
Exhaustive source of ADA information.






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