Current And Future Development Of The Latest Programming Languages

Name of
Latest
Programming
Language
Developer

Yukihiro Matsumoto

Larry Wall

Python Software Foundation

Bjarne Stroustrup

Year
Developed

1995

1987

1991

1983

Purpose

Designed for programmer

productivity

As a general-purpose Unix
scripting language to make
report processing easier

Allows programmers to
express concepts in fewer
lines of code

Designed with a bias toward

systems programming;
embedded systems;
resource constrained
systems

Platform
(OS)

Cross-platform

Cross-platform

Cross-platform

Cross-platform

Approach

Object-oriented

Object-oriented

Object-oriented and structured

Object-oriented

Translator
used

Interpreter

Interpreter

Interpreter

Compiler

Uses dynamic typing and a

combination of reference
counting and a cycle-detecting
garbage collector for memory
management

Providing the facilities for

low-level memory
manipulation

http://www.python.org

http://www.isocpp.org

Special
features
(optional)

The language syntax is

sensitive to the
capitalization of identifiers

Has many built-in functions that

provide tools often used in shell
programming

Source of
Reference

http://www.ruby-lang.org

http://www.perl.org
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl