1.2 timeline

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  • FORTRAN

    Developed by john Backus and IBM. originally developed for scientific and engineering applications.

  • MATH-MATIC

    Designed by a team led by Charles katz. which was an early programming language for the UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II

  • Lisp

    Originally specified in 1958, Lisp is the second-oldest high-level programming language. Designed by John McCarthy. Lisp was originally created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs.

  • COBOL ( Common Business- Oriented Language.

    Created as part of the US Department of Defense to create a portable programming language for data processing. developed By CODASYL Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves.

  • BASIC ( Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

    developed by John G. Kenny and Thomas E. Kurtz. Developed to enable students in other fields besides science and math to use computers

  • LOGO

    LOGO was created as an educational programming language by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon.

  • B

    developed at AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories by Ken Thompson. influcked by BCPL. B was designed for recursive, non-numeric, machine- independent applications.

  • C

    Developed by Dennis Ritchie. Designed to be complied isong a straightfoward complier, to provide low-level access to memory.

  • ML (Meta Language)

    Designed by Robin Milner and others at the University of Edinburgh. created to develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover.

  • ADA

    Created by Jean ichbian, originally created to supersede over 450 programming languages used by the DoD. ADA was named after Ada lovelace who was credited as the first computer programmer.

  • C++

    Designed by Bjarne Stroustrup. Designed to increase performance, efficiency and flexibility towards system programming and embedded, resource constrained and large systems.

  • Visual Basic

    Created by Alan Cooper which purpose was to connect the programming language to user interfaces

  • Delphi

    Developed by Borland ( Anders Hejlseberg) as a rapid application development tool for windows as a successor of Turbo Pascal

  • Java

    Designed by James Gosling. originally called OAK, Java was created to allow consumer electronic devices to communicate with each other

  • JavaScript

    Designed by Brendan Eich. created for the web Browser. (ex HTML)