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2 unusual facts about Programming language generations


Programming language generations

The marketing for this generational shift in machines did correlate with several important changes in what were called high level programming languages, discussed below, giving technical content to the second/third-generation distinction among high level programming languages as well, and reflexively renaming assembly languages as first-generation.

Block structure was also associated with deprecation of global variables, a similar source of error to goto.



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