In this project, you will do some research using the World Wide Web. Use a search engine like www.google.com to start locating materials.

This project will immerse you in the development of programming languages. Here are your tasks:

• Discover five widely-used higher-level languages--assembly languages don't count.
• Two of the languages must have come into wide use before 1975, two must have come into wide use between 1975 and 1990, and one must have come into wide use since 1990.
• All five must be widely used under more than one operating system. This rules out company-specific "dialects" like Visual Basic, which is Windows-only.
• Use Netscape Composer (no other process will be accepted!) to write a report with five sections. Each section will describe a language in 300-500 words.
• At the start of your report, include a summary in the form of an HTML table like this:

 

Name of Language	Year of Introduction	Language's Main Inventor(s)
...	...	...
...	...	...
...	...	...
...	...	...
...	...	...

• In the body of your report, for each language, try to supply these facts:
• main applications for which the language was intended to be used
• a list of some of the computers/operating systems on which the language is used
• a brief discussion of the main language "features"
• any other interesting facts you wish to add
• For each language, you must cite your sources by including the link(s) to the website(s) you used for that language. If you quote anything from a website, you must indicate it by quotation marks and an immediate link to that site.
• When you are finished, publish the page to your SEAS website. Browse to the published page to make sure it got there OK. Test all the links in it! Do NOT put a link to it in your index page; just e-mail the URL to your lab instructor by noon, 11/8. You must also submit a printed copy of your page in lab on 11/8 or 11/9.

Classwide collaboration

Note: We hope everyone will share URLs, but your report-writing work must be your own!