1.2 Timeline Assignment

  • Plankalkul

    Was created by Konrad Zuse as the first real programming language.
  • Fortran

    Was developed by John Backus and is especially suited to numeric and scientific computing.
  • MATH-MATIC

    Was developed by a team led by Charles Katz. It was used to express operations using English-like statements
  • Lisp

    Was developed by Steve Russell, Timothy P. Hart, and Mike Levin. Lisp was created to explore the theoretical foundations of a Turing-complete algorithmic language.
  • COBOL

    Stands for common business-oriented language. It was developed by a company called CODASYL and was designed for business use.
  • RPG

    Stands for Report Program Generator, it was created by IBM. It had a wide array of business applications and uses.
  • BASIC

    Was developed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz, and was used to provide a way for students to write simple computer programs.
  • Logo

    Was created by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon. It was an educational programming language.
  • B

    Was developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie and was designed for recursive, non-numeric, machine-independent applications.
  • Pascal

    Was developed by Niklaus Wirth and used for teaching programming as a systematic discipline and to develop reliable and efficient programs.
  • C

    Was developed by Dennis Ritchie and used for supporting structured programming, lexical variable scope, and recursion, while a static type system prevents unintended operations.
  • ML

    Stands for Meta Language and was developed by Robin Milner. It was used for functional programming.
  • ADA

    Was developed by Jean Ichbeah and S. Tucker Taft for a high variety of uses, including missile control, payroll processing, and air traffic control.
  • C++

    Was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup and was used as an extension of the C programming language.
  • SQL

    Was designed by Donald D. Chamberlin Raymond F. Boyce. It is used to communicate with a database.
  • Python

    Was designed by Guido van Rossum, and was used for the development of desktop GUI applications, websites and web applications.
  • Visual Basic

    Was developed by microsoft and is intended to be relatively easy to learn and use.
  • Delphi

    Was developed by Anders Hejlsberg and used for rapid application development software.
  • Java

    Was developed by James Gosling and was meant to be a simpler version of C++.
  • Javascript

    Was designed by Brendan Eich and is used to used to design or program how the web pages behave on the occurrence of an event.
  • PHP

    Was created by Rasmus Lerdorf and was designed to server-side web development.