High quality programming guide-C/C ++ language-A Brief History of Programming Language Development in chapter 2nd

Chapter 2Programming LanguageA brief history of development is some popular science knowledge in computer science, but for integrity, I still keep my reading notes as a separate article.

In this chapter, the author briefly introduces the development history of programming language, tells the story of beautiful women's Ada, and particularly mentions the development and evolution of C/C ++ language; the competition between Borland and Microsoft is shown in vivid and beautiful sentences. Java is the most popular tool in programming languages in recent years. Its contest with Microsoft C # has become a story, finally, Java has become the "lucky" in this era ".

Today, programming languages have become more and more platform-based. Mastering a programming language requires not only understanding the syntax, but also the ability to use the integrated development environment of the language and the corresponding library functions.

As one of my colleagues said in the weekly report: "software development is a system engineering. It is never a language, a tool, or a technology that can be used for software development. To become a real software engineer, it's still a long way to go ......"