Are Fortran, Cobol, Basic and Forth high level programming languages?

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Aaron de Windt picture Aaron de Windt · Jun 6, 2010 · Viewed 7.7k times · Source

Are Fortran, Cobol, Basic and Forth high level programming languages?

And if not, what where the first high level programming languages?

Which were the first object-oriented languages?

Answer

0xAX picture 0xAX · Jun 6, 2010

Fortran - first high level programming language.

Simula - first object-oriented language.

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