Interesting facts about programming language

Facts about programming language:-

1. The first programming language, called Fortran, was created in the 1950s.

2. The first computer programmer was a woman named Ada Lovelace, who worked with Charles Babbage on the Analytical Engine in the 1800s.

3. The first bug in computer programming history was a real bug - a moth that was found in a computer at Harvard University in 1947.

4. The programming language Python was named after the Monty Python comedy group.

5. The first web browser, called WorldWideWeb, was also created by the same person who created the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee.

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6. The programming language C was created by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs in the 1970s, and it has been used to write many operating systems, including Unix and Linux.

7. The first computer virus was created in the early 1970s, and it was called the Creeper virus.

8. The first computer game, called Spacewar!, was created in 1962 by a group of students at MIT.

9. The first artificial intelligence program was created in 1951 by Christopher Strachey.

10. The term "bug" in computer programming originally referred to real bugs that got stuck in early computers, causing them to malfunction.

11. The concept of object-oriented programming, which is used in many modern programming languages, was first developed in the 1960s.

12. The first computer mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart in 1963.

13. The first electronic digital computer, called the Atanasoff-Berry Computer, was built in the late 1930s.

14. The first high-level programming language, called Short Code, was developed in the late 1940s.

15. The first compiler, which translates source code into machine code, was created by Grace Hopper in the 1950s.

16. The first popular web browser, Netscape Navigator, was released in 1994.

17. The first website ever created is still online today. It was created by Tim Berners-Lee in 1991 and is hosted by CERN.

18. The programming language Java was originally called Oak, but the name was changed in 1995.

19. The first graphical user interface, or GUI, was developed by Xerox PARC in the 1970s.

20. The programming language Lisp, which was developed in the 1950s, is still used today for artificial intelligence and machine learning.

21. The first computer mouse had only one button. The second button was added in 1984 by Apple.

22. The first email was sent in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson, who also created the "@" symbol to separate the user and domain in email addresses.

23. The first computer password was "password" - a fact that has led to countless security breaches over the years.

24. The first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, was released in 1995 and was made using the programming language C++.

25. The first smartphone, IBM's Simon Personal Communicator, was released in 1993 and could make phone calls, send faxes, and even had a touchscreen.