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Literature Review As a Bell Labs employee, Bjarne Stroustrup was exposed to and appreciated the strengths of C, but also appreciated the power and convenience of higher-level languages like Simula, which had language support for object-oriented programming (OOP). Stroustrup realized that there was nothing in the nature of C that prevented it from directly supporting […]

Write up on Tech Geek History: ATARI BASIC Programming revision 3 Literature Review(Beginners All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) programming language was born in 1964 at the Dartmouth College, New Hampshire (USA), where it was developed by John G. Kemeney (1926-93) and Thomas E. Kurtz (Kemeney, who had been working at the Manhattan Project (1945) and afterwards

Background of Study :: History of Pascal :: The language Component Pascal was the culmination of several decades of research. It was the youngest member of the Algol family of languages. Algol, defined in 1960, was the first high-level language with a readable, structured, and systematically defined syntax. In the late sixties, several proposals for

Literature Review A fascinating element of ancient Egyptian astronomy that was gradually adopted into Greco-Roman astrological practice is the decan. The decans were thirty-six individual stars or small constellations that rose and set at different times of the year, acting as a means of telling time throughout the night for the ancient Egyptians.  They were

Significance of Study Some scholars have claimed that the Babylonians invented the zodiac of 360 degrees around 700 BCE, perhaps even earlier. Many claim that India received the knowledge of the zodiac from Babylonia or even later from Greece. However, as old as the Rig Veda, the oldest Vedic text, there are clear references to

Introduction The bogatyr is a figure from Russian folklore, a warrior of unsurpassed strength and virtue, literally meaning “strongman” or “hero.” Bylinas are poetic songs that relate the deeds of the bogatyr (and their female counterparts, called the bogatyrka or polyanitsa, a word meaning “field women”). Significance of Study Ilya of Murom and Nightingale the

Introduction The centaur is customarily depicted as a creature with the head, arms and torso of a human and the body of a horse with four equine legs. The centaur has also been depicted in Greek vase paintings, however, in the form of a human body terminating in human forelegs and feet or hooves with