Software Applications

Since the introduction of von Neumann architecture in the 1940s, which stipulated the critical division between hardware and software, engineers and programmers alike have been striving to build bigger, faster and cheaper software applications. This end goal of creating the most elegant program utilizing the least resources while performing the most work has seen a plethora of developments over the last several decades. Every innovation from the early programming languages of COBOL and FORTRAN to the more recent move toward the agile programming method has informed the creation of software applications designed to meet increasing demands and to answer a greater number of needs in the most efficient way possible