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 Programming Language Timeline
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+History of programming languages
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+## 1972 C
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+<img src="./author/Dennis_Ritchie_2011.jpg" width="180" alt="Dennis Ritchie" />
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+C is a general-purpose programming language. It was created in the 1970s by Dennis Ritchie and remains very widely used and influential.
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 ## 1983 Objective-C
 
 Brad Cox and Tom Love created Objective-C as the main language used for writing Apple software
 
+## 1986 Erlang
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+[Erlang](https://www.erlang.org/) is a general-purpose, concurrent, functional high-level programming language, and a garbage-collected runtime system.
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 ## 1983 C++
 
 Bjarne Stroustrup created C++, which is an extension of the C programming language. This is one of the most used languages in the world

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