History of Programming Languages, The

As with any of todays ideas which we often take for granted, there is usually a long history behind them which can span thousands of years. Programming Languages are different only in that they were dependent on the development of todays computers, which was a process that started about 2000 years ago. Since the development of the transistor in the early 50's, both the computers and the programming languages written to work with them have expanded many times over, often spawning new languages off of older, outdated ones.