Programming Domains:

• Scientific Applications
• 1st digtal computers 1940s
• FORTRAN     1950s and 1960s   
• Large numbers of floating-point computations
• use arrays
• Control structures are loops and selections
• It is for the large scale simulation of physical systems: 
  astrophysical modeling of stars and galaxies, 
  hydrodynamics codes
• New versions: 1995, 2003, 2008, 2018
• Business Applications
• COBOL 1960
• Producing reports
• Precise ways to storing decimal numbers
• Spreadsheet systems
• Database systems
• Artificial Intelligence
• LISP (functional language)  1965
• Using symbolic computation (instead of numeric computation)
• Using linked lists of data (instead of arrays)
• Prolog (logic programming)  1997
• Systems Programming
• The operating system and all of the programming support tools of a computer system
• Low-level features  (efficient on execution)
• Portable for different machines (C language)
• Scripting Languages or Web Software
• Putting a list of commands in a file to be executed
• Markup language (e.g. HTML)
• Scripting Language (e.g. PHP)
• General-purpose (e.g. Java)