Editing Programming language (section)

===1980s to 2000s===
[[File:Bangalore India Tech books for sale IMG 5261.jpg|thumb|right|A small selection of programming language textbooks]]

During the 1980s, the invention of the [[personal computer]] transformed the roles for which programming languages were used.{{sfn|Gabbrielli|Martini|2023|pp=532–533}} New languages introduced in the 1980s included C++, a [[superset]] of C that can compile C programs but also supports [[Class (computer programming)|classes]] and [[Inheritance (object-oriented programming)|inheritance]].{{sfn|Gabbrielli|Martini|2023|p=534}} [[Ada (programming language)|Ada]] and other new languages introduced support for [[Concurrency (computer science)|concurrency]].{{sfn|Gabbrielli|Martini|2023|pp=534–535}} The Japanese government invested heavily into the so-called [[Fifth-generation programming language|fifth-generation languages]] that added support for concurrency to logic programming constructs, but these languages were outperformed by other concurrency-supporting languages.{{sfn|Gabbrielli|Martini|2023|p=535}}{{sfn|Sebesta|2012|p=736}}

Due to the rapid growth of the [[Internet]] and the [[World Wide Web]] in the 1990s, new programming languages were introduced to support [[Web pages]] and [[Computer network |networking]].{{sfn|Gabbrielli|Martini|2023|p=536}} [[Java (programming language)|Java]], based on C++ and designed for increased portability across systems and security, enjoyed large-scale success because these features are essential for many Internet applications.{{sfn|Gabbrielli|Martini|2023|pp=536–537}}{{sfn|Sebesta|2012|pp=91–92}} Another development was that of [[type system|dynamically typed]] [[scripting languages]]—[[Python (programming language)|Python]], [[JavaScript]], [[PHP]], and [[Ruby (programming language)|Ruby]]—designed to quickly produce small programs that coordinate existing [[Application software|application]]s. Due to their integration with [[HTML]], they have also been used for building web pages hosted on [[Server (computing)|server]]s.{{sfn|Gabbrielli|Martini|2023|pp=538–539}}{{sfn|Sebesta|2012|pp=97–99}}