PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES CHRONICLE

Since the development of computer, scientists, computer experts, and programmers have been trying to find a better way to build software applications.Numerous programming languages were developed, and the newer one has more power, capabilities to facilitate programming.Along with the newer, object-oriented capability languages such as C++, Java, C#, programming paradigm is also changed, from the structured to object-oriented, and to component-oriented programming.This research paper addresses the following questions: What is a programming language?What are special features that a programming language can offer?How they relate to each others?This paper considers books, and research papers on similar topics that might provide a deeper understanding of programming languages, and the answers to these questions above.