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@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ The **first [assembly](assembly.md) language** was created by Maurice Wilkes and
Only the **third generation languages** made the step of adding significant [abstraction](abstraction.md) to achieve a level of comfortable development and portability -- programmers would be able to e.g. write algebraic expressions that would be automatically translated to specific instructions by the language compiler; it would be enough to write the program once and then automatically compile it for different CPUs, without the need to rewrite it. **[Fortran](fortran.md)** is considered to be first such language, made in 1957 by [IBM](ibm.md). Fortran would develop and change throughout the years, it was standardized and added more "features", it became quite popular and is still used even nowadays, it is known for being very fast. In 1958 John McCarthy started to develop **[Lisp](lisp.md)**, a highly elegant, high level language that would spawn many derivatives and remains very popular even nowadays.
During late 60s the term [object oriented programming](oop.md) (OOP) appeared, as well as first languages such as Simula and [Smalltalk](smalltalk.md) that were based on this [paradigm](paradigm.md). Back then it was a rather academic experiment, not really harmful in itself; later on OOP would be seized and raped by capitalists to break computers. In 1964 the language called **[BASIC](basic.md)** appeared that was aimed at making programming easier even for non-professionals -- it would become a very popular language for the home computers. On a similar not in 1970 **[Pascal](pascal.md)** was created to be an educational language -- some hackers already saw this as too much of a retardization of programming languages (see the famous *Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal* essay).
During late 60s the term [object oriented programming](oop.md) (OOP) appeared, as well as first languages such as Simula and [Smalltalk](smalltalk.md) based on this [paradigm](paradigm.md). Back then it was a rather academic experiment, not really harmful in itself; later on OOP would be seized and raped by capitalists to break computers. In 1964 the language called **[BASIC](basic.md)** appeared with the goal to facilitate programming to non-professionals and reached popularity as a language for home computers. On a similar note in 1970 **[Pascal](pascal.md)** was created as an educational language -- some hackers already saw this as too much of a retardation of programming languages (see the legendary rant called *Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal* essay).
One of the most notable events in history of programming languages was the invention of the **[C](c.md) language** in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kerninghan who used it as a tool for their [Unix](unix.md) operating system. The early version C was quite different from today's C but the language as a whole is undoubtedly the most important one in history -- it's not the most elegant one but it achieved the exactly correct mixture of features, simplicity and correct design choices such as allowing freedom and flexibility of implementation that would in turn lead to extreme efficiency and adoption by many, to standardization, further leading to many implementations and their high [optimization](optimization.md) which in turned increased C's popularity yet more and so on. From this point on new languages would typically in one way or another try to iterate on C. Also in 1972 the **first [esoteric programming language](esolang.md)** -- INTERCAL -- was created as kind of parody language. This would create a dedicated community of people creating similar "funny" language, which is highly active even today.