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+⚙️ C#
+
+Created: 2000 by Anders Hejlsberg at Microsoft
+
+Fun Fact: C# was originally called “Cool” (C-like Object Oriented Language).
+
+Bonus: It runs on the .NET framework and powers Unity game development.
+
+🐘 PHP
+
+Created: 1995 by Rasmus Lerdorf
+
+Fun Fact: PHP originally stood for “Personal Home Page” before it became “PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.”
+
+Bonus: It still powers over 75% of websites today, including WordPress.
+
+☕ JavaScript
+
+Created: 1995 by Brendan Eich in just 10 days!
+
+Fun Fact: JavaScript was not related to Java — it was renamed from “Mocha” to “JavaScript” for marketing reasons.
+
+Bonus: It now runs everywhere — browsers, servers, and even IoT devices.
+
+🐚 Bash
+
+Created: 1989 by Brian Fox for the GNU Project
+
+Fun Fact: Bash stands for Bourne Again Shell — a pun on the older Bourne Shell (sh).
+
+Bonus: It’s still the default shell on most Unix-like systems.
+
+🧩 Perl
+
+Created: 1987 by Larry Wall
+
+Fun Fact: Perl was nicknamed “the Swiss Army chainsaw” of scripting languages because of its flexibility and power.
+
+Bonus: Its motto: “There’s more than one way to do it.”
+
+🧠 Prolog
+
+Created: 1972 by Alain Colmerauer
+
+Fun Fact: Prolog was one of the earliest logic programming languages — you tell it what you want, not how to do it.
+
+Bonus: Used in early AI and natural language processing research.
+
+🧬 Lisp
+
+Created: 1958 by John McCarthy
+
+Fun Fact: Lisp is the second-oldest high-level language (after Fortran) and introduced concepts like recursion and garbage collection.
+
+Bonus: It influenced modern AI languages and functional programming.
+
+🧮 Fortran
+
+Created: 1957 by John Backus
+
+Fun Fact: The name stands for FORmula TRANslation.
+
+Bonus: Still used in scientific computing and high-performance simulations today!
+
+⚡ Assembly
+
+Created: 1949 (approx.)
+
+Fun Fact: Assembly language is the closest you can get to machine code while still being readable by humans.
+
+Bonus: It varies by CPU architecture — there’s no single “Assembly.”
+
+📈 Scala
+
+Created: 2003 by Martin Odersky
+
+Fun Fact: Scala’s name means scalable language — it grows with your needs.
+
+Bonus: It combines functional and object-oriented programming beautifully.
+
+🦋 TypeScript
+
+Created: 2012 by Microsoft
+
+Fun Fact: TypeScript is just JavaScript with superpowers — it adds static typing.
+
+Bonus: The Angular framework is written entirely in TypeScript.
+
+🌐 HTML
+
+Created: 1993 by Tim Berners-Lee
+
+Fun Fact: HTML wasn’t designed for aesthetics — it was created to link and share scientific documents.
+
+Bonus: The first HTML website is still live: info.cern.ch
+.
+
+💾 COBOL
+
+Created: 1959 by Grace Hopper and others
+
+Fun Fact: COBOL code still runs in major banks and government systems today — often from the 1960s!
+
+Bonus: It reads like plain English: DISPLAY "HELLO, WORLD."
+
+🛰️ Ada
+
+Created: 1980 by Jean Ichbiah for the U.S. Department of Defense
+
+Fun Fact: Named after Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer in history.
+
+Bonus: It’s used in aviation, defense, and spacecraft systems.
+
+🧬 MATLAB
+
+Created: 1984 by Cleve Moler
+
+Fun Fact: MATLAB stands for MATrix LABoratory — it was built for linear algebra operations.
+
+Bonus: Engineers love it for signal processing and control systems.
+
+🐹 Go (Extra Fact)
+
+Fun Fact: The Gopher mascot was created in MS Paint!
+
+Bonus: Go’s compilation speed is often used as a benchmark for fast languages.
+
+🧠 Brainfuck
+
+Created: 1993 by Urban Müller
+
+Fun Fact: Brainfuck has only 8 commands, yet it’s Turing-complete.
+
+Bonus: It’s designed to be minimal and almost unreadable — just for fun!
+
+🔐 Swift (Extra Fact)
+
+Fun Fact: Swift code can actually run side-by-side with Objective-C inside the same project.
+
+Bonus: It’s open-source and even used on Linux servers now.
+
+🪐 Kotlin
+
+Created: 2011 by JetBrains
+
+Fun Fact: Named after Kotlin Island in Russia, similar to how Java was named after Java Island.
+
+Bonus: Officially supported by Google for Android app development.
+
+☁️ Dart
+
+Created: 2011 by Lars Bak and Kasper Lund (Google)
+
+Fun Fact: Dart powers the Flutter framework, letting developers build apps for Android, iOS, and Web from one codebase.
+
+Bonus: Its syntax looks like a mix of Java, JavaScript, and C#.
+
+🧩 SQL
+
+Created: 1974 by Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce
+
+Fun Fact: SQL was originally called SEQUEL (Structured English Query Language).
+
+Bonus: It remains one of the most used languages worldwide.