Recap and Feedback

In this part, we took a step back and looked at the evolution of programming languages over the years, starting from early days of machine code and assembly languages to the modern high-level languages. We also skimmed through languages that have defined modern programming, including ALGOL’s impact through structured programming, Smalltalk’s “everything is an object” idea, and Lisp’s functional programming helping reason about programs. We also discussed multi-paradigm languages and scripting languages, including domain-specific languages. Finally. we briefly visited the ever-ongoing debate over programming languages and choosing the right tool for the job.