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Programming languages started as an abstract concept and then adapted and changed over time. From the origins of machine language, switch input, extending into the early days of simple line-by-line coding like COBOL or BASIC to object-oriented languages like Java and C#, to quantum computer languages like Q#, the evolution of programming languages has developed over the course of many decades.
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Winnie, D. (2021). Programming Languages. In: Essential Java for AP CompSci. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6183-5_4
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