From 1959 to 1964 is known as the second generation of computers. Computers of this generation are built on the base of the transistor. It is an electronic element that can perform the same work as electronic lamp, only much smaller, consumes little energy and heat, and is much faster than it. Hence the resulting characteristics of computers of this generation: they had small size, the speed of calculation amounted to 100 000 operations per second, and data memory used magnetic tape. New computers used and new programming languages. In 1958, the market appear two very important and influential programming languages, LISP and ALGOL 58, and the following year appeared COBOL. LISP is the language of artificial intelligence, one of the key areas of computer science. Founders of this science that began in 1956 were Marvin Minsky and John McCarthy, her "godfather" and author of LISP. ALGOL 58 is the first imperative programming language, a language that contains operators that change the situation passes a process. In 1960 was launched the new version of ALGOL 60, which is the basis of many modern snippet languages.In his elaboration participated in a research team, led by the dean of science, Grace Hopper and Joe Wegstein.Se considered that as of 1980, most programs were written namely COBOL, a language widely used today in the UK and the U.S..His direct descendants are the different versions of Visual Basic, one of the most popular languages today.
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Second generation
From 1959 to 1964 is known as the second generation of computers. Computers of this generation are built on the base of the transistor. It is an electronic element that can perform the same work as electronic lamp, only much smaller, consumes little energy and heat, and is much faster than it. Hence the resulting characteristics of computers of this generation: they had small size, the speed of calculation amounted to 100 000 operations per second, and data memory used magnetic tape. New computers used and new programming languages. In 1958, the market appear two very important and influential programming languages, LISP and ALGOL 58, and the following year appeared COBOL. LISP is the language of artificial intelligence, one of the key areas of computer science. Founders of this science that began in 1956 were Marvin Minsky and John McCarthy, her "godfather" and author of LISP. ALGOL 58 is the first imperative programming language, a language that contains operators that change the situation passes a process. In 1960 was launched the new version of ALGOL 60, which is the basis of many modern snippet languages.In his elaboration participated in a research team, led by the dean of science, Grace Hopper and Joe Wegstein.Se considered that as of 1980, most programs were written namely COBOL, a language widely used today in the UK and the U.S..His direct descendants are the different versions of Visual Basic, one of the most popular languages today.
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