At the fabled Xerox Palo Alto Research Center scientists sat on beanbag chairs and dreamed up inventions like the graphical user interface for small computers and the PostScript language for printers, as well as ways to link computers within an office.

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Users could play many games and also learn the programming language of computers -- BASIC.

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And, eventually, more natural modes of interacting with computers will finally prevail, including touch, natural language recognition, digital pens and other motion cues.

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Fortran was one of the first widely adopted "high level" computer languages--before those, computers had to be programmed directly in assembly language, a complicated and laborious process.

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In financial services, companies are tagging financial data with a language called XBRL, which helps identify related items in different financial documents and allows computers to automatically generate complex financial reports.

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He said the aim of the project is to eventually have Swahili language software operating on thousands of computers at grass roots levels, including primary schools and universities.

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Although Sun's principal business is making high-end computers, its ambitious branding effort is designed to promote and protect its increasingly popular Java programming language.

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The programming language and its associated software libraries are designed to allow software developers to write programs that can run on otherwise incompatible computers with little modification.

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