evolution

Here's my personal view of how programming languages evolved to increase the sophistication of syntax to make the act of programming the computer easier.

• assembly added mneumonics to binary words
• named functions, taking parameters to encapsulate an idea
• object-oriented programming, encapsulating functions with data
• syntax for heavily used data structures, like lists, sets, dicts (python)
• unified data model in OOP for all objects to inter-operate
• data ecosystem with p2p networking