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Like the language used by humans, computer programming languages are also in constant changes and evolution. While new syntax and expressions continue to enrich the language, those old and outdated things are gradually resolved because they don't have to Changes in the language of human beings are a slow and lasting process, but the computer language is not, its change is gradually and structural, it is often the modification or standardization organization of the language of the language. Standardization changes. C O B O L This language was founded in 1 959, once a standardization in 1 968, and re-issued in 19974. Since then, it is basically no change. F O RT R A n language, after standardization in 1 966, re-issue twice in 1 9 77 and 1 990. Because the computer language is almost revised every decade, the programmers can use the programming method of learning in college for many years. The programmers fully have time to master a computer language and gradually accumulate rich experience, which is convenient for future work. But now, things have developed differently, and a stable period of language is very short -, for example, less than two years - its issuers constantly changing the language of language, user interface, even interior mechanism. The development of B A S i C language is an example. At the end of the 70s, KEMENY and K U R T Z developed B A S i C language, which quickly became the mass programming language, which was installed on thousands of personal computers. Subsequently, some "updated and improved versions" allow programmers to use Structured principles for the design of the B A S i C program, but the syntax and user interfaces have not changed. Suddenly, Microsoft has developed a Visual Basic language in 1 9 91, which is generally inherited from the old version of B A S i C language. In the next six years, Microsoft has released four versions of Visual Basic products, which makes the programmers have to spend a lot of time and energy to re-learn over VB, which leads to hard work finish. A program project. Lost the proficiency of the language, the programmer sometimes has to gather together to discuss a very basic understanding of the procedure, which is due to the enhancement of language functions. Visual Basic's update reacted advances in technology and programming methods, such as the transition from 1 6-bit to 3 2 bits, the introduction of Windows 95, network programming, and introduction of object-oriented technology, etc.. Is the value not worth it than the cost of this version of the update than what it can provide? Some signs show that the majority of programmers and the supervisors of the information system for business needs of computer language merchants on the market and the new features they guaranteed are increasingly disgusted and boycotted. It seems that in the computer market, people need to stabilize.
