Programming language
“”Programming languages are just like human ones : the more people speak a language, the better. This means more libraries and tools developed, more experience shared, more job offerings, more learning materials published, and so on.
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| — Maxim Shafirov (May 17, 2017) "Kotlin on Android. Now official" JetBrain Blog |
Constructs
“”Exception handling is a comparative newcomer to the programmer's toolset. It wasn't until IBM's PL/I came along, in the mid 1970s that exception handling appeared in a language. PL/I's exceptions were based on a proposal by John B. Goodenough. After PL/I, the next mainstream-ish language to support exceptions was Ada. But neither PL/I nor Ada really "took on". It wasn't until C++ compilers began to support exception handling constructs, in the early 1990s, that the idea was really adopted by the mainstream.
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| — Verity Stob (January 11, 2006) "Catch as catch can : A light-hearted look at exception handling" The Register |