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During the 1980s, the invention of the [[personal computer]] transformed the roles for which programming languages were used.{{sfn|Gabbrielli|Martini|2023|pp=532–533}} New languages introduced in the 1980s included C++, a [[superset]] of C that can compile C programs but also supports [[Class (computer programming)|classes]] and [[Inheritance (object-oriented programming)|inheritance]].{{sfn|Gabbrielli|Martini|2023|p=534}} [[Ada (programming language)|Ada]] and other new languages introduced support for [[Concurrency (computer science)|concurrency]].{{sfn|Gabbrielli|Martini|2023|pp=534–535}} The Japanese government invested heavily into the so-called [[Fifth-generation programming language|fifth-generation languages]] that added support for concurrency to logic programming constructs, but these languages were outperformed by other concurrency-supporting languages.{{sfn|Gabbrielli|Martini|2023|p=535}}{{sfn|Sebesta|2012|p=736}}

Due to the rapid growth of the [[Internet]] and the [[World Wide Web]] in the 1990s, new programming languages were introduced to support [[Web pages]] and [[Computer network |networking]].{{sfn|Gabbrielli|Martini|2023|p=536}} [[Java (programming language)|Java]], based on C++ and designed for increased portability across systems and security, enjoyed large-scale success because these features are essential for many Internet applications.{{sfn|Gabbrielli|Martini|2023|pp=536–537}}{{sfn|Sebesta|2012|pp=91–92}} Another development was that of [[type system|dynamically typed]] [[scripting languages]]—[[Python (programming language)|Python]], [[JavaScript]], [[PHP]], and [[Ruby (programming language)|Ruby]]—designed to quickly produce small programs that coordinate existing [[Application software|application]]s. TheyDue wereto also used fortheir integration with [[HTML]], they have also been used for building web pages hosted on [[Server (computing)|server]]s.{{sfn|Gabbrielli|Martini|2023|pp=538–539}}{{sfn|Sebesta|2012|pp=97–99}}

During the 2000s, there was a slowdown in the development of new programming languages that achieved widespread popularity.{{sfn|Gabbrielli|Martini|2023|p=542}} One innovation was [[service-oriented programming]], designed to exploit [[distributed systems]] whose components are connected by a network. Services are similar to objects in object-oriented programming, but run on a separate process.{{sfn|Gabbrielli|Martini|2023|pp=474–475, 477, 542}} [[C Sharp (programming language)|C#]] and [[F Sharp (programming language)|F#]] cross-pollinated ideas between imperative and functional programming.{{sfn|Gabbrielli|Martini|2023|pp=542–543}} After 2010, several new languages—[[Rust (programming language)|Rust]], [[Go (programming language)|Go]], and [[Swift (programming language)|Swift]]—competed for the performance-critical software for which C had historically been used.{{sfn|Gabbrielli|Martini|2023|p=544}}