A genre of African-American literature that developed in the middle of the 19th century is the slave narrative, accounts written by fugitive slaves about their lives in the South and, often, after escaping to freedom. They wanted to describe the cruelties of life under slavery, as well as the persistent humanity of the slaves as persons.
This is a featured language. Malbolge, invented by Ben Olmstead in 1998, is an esoteric programming language designed to be as difficult to program in as possible. The first Hello, world! program written in it was produced by a Lisp program using a local beam search of the space of all possible programs.
COBOL: Introduction. Programmers at the Console of a UNIVAC I, with Unityper and Tape Drives. Fifty years ago, each computer maker used its own programming languages to tell a computer what to do. In 1959, a group of programmers devised COBOL, a COmmon, Business-Oriented Language. Programs written in COBOL could run on more than one manufacturerâs computer. In a 1960 test, the same COBOL programs ran successfully on two computers built by different manufacturers. A small group of programmers from the computer industry and its clients wrote the new language of COBOL.