Treffer: Programming Languages.

This article features several programming languages. BASIC made programming basic which was developed in the 1960s to teach programming to nontechnical students. In 1989, Microsoft, which issues BASIC, estimated that there were at least four million BASIC programmers. The programming language C is designed to be hardware-independent. A user can write a C program for a database system on a Sun UNIX system, for example, and then run the same code, with a minimum number of changes, on an IBM microcomputer. Not surprisingly, C is very popular in the business community and The Waite Group's New C Primer Plus covers all the basics of C and is written with style and humor. While most programs are written for routine tasks, higher level object-oriented programming languages can take into account the various attributes of the objects involved in a procedure. While such programming may sound too advanced for general practitioners, Borland is marketing Turbo C + +, an object-oriented version of C, at very reasonable prices. An emerging object-oriented program is SmallTalk developed by Alan Kaye and Adele Goldberg at Xerox.