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| C programming language | Developed in the early 1970s by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs |
| COBOL | evolved out of a joint effort between U.S. government, businesses & major universities in teh 1960s |
| object-oriented programming (OOP) language | allows programmers the ability to reuse and modify existing objects |
| C++ | an extension of the C programming language |
| F++ | combines the benefits of an object-oriented language with those of a functional language |
| visual programming language | a language that uses a visual or graphical interface for creating all source code |
| 4GL (fourth-generation language) | a nonprocedural language that enables users and programmers to access data in a database |
| nonprocedural language | allows a programmer to write English-like instructions OR interacts with a graphical environment |
| macro | a series of statements that instructs an application how to complete a task |
| HTML | a special formatting language that programmers use to format documents for display on the Web |
| XHTML | a markup language that allows Web sites to be displayed more easily on mobile devices |
| XML | allows Web developers to create customized tags and use predefined tags to display content appropriately on various devices |
| WML | a subset of XML and is used to design pages for microbrowsers |
| flowchart | graphically shows the logic in a solution algorithm. |
| pseudocode | uses a condensed form of English to convey program logic. |
| debugging | locating and correcting syntax and logic errors in computer programs |
