1.2 Timeline Assignment

  • Plankalkul

    Developed by Konrad Zuse. Used for engineering purposes. There is no acronym.
  • Fortran

    Developed by John Backus. Used for numeric computation and scientific computing. No acronym.
  • Math-Matic

    Developed by Remington Rand. Used as a business oriented language. No acronym.
  • Lisp

    Developed by Steve Russell, Timothy P. Hart, and Mike Levin. Used for easy manipulation of data strings. Acronym is List Processing.
  • COBOL

    Developed by Howard Bromberg and Jean E. Sammet. This is used for business, finance, and administrative systems for companies. COBOL stands for Common Business Oriented Language.
  • RPG

    Developed by IBM. Used for business applications. RBG is the acronym Report Program Generator.
  • Basic

    Developed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz. This is used for enabling students in Math and Science to use computers. This acronym is Beginners All- Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
  • LOGO

    Developed by Bolt and Beranek & Newman. Used for generating basic shapes using a turtle cursor. No acronym.
  • B

    Developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. This language is a non-numeric machine used for independent applications. No acronym.
  • PASCAL

    Developed by Niklaus Wirth. Used for good programming practices and data structuring. PASCAL stands for Preservations and Storage Center for Academic Libraries.
  • C

    Developed by Dennis Ritchie. It is used for supporting structured programming for lexical variable scope and recursion. There is no acronym.
  • C++

    Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup. It is efficient and flexible with high- level features for organization. There is no acronym.
  • ADA

    Jean Ichbiah and S. Tucker Taft developed this. This language is used for improving code safety and maintainability. There is no acronym.
  • SQL

    Developed by ISO and IEC. Used for managing data held in a rational database management system. SQL is the acronym for Structured Query Language.
  • Python

    Developed by Python Software Foundation. Used to emphasize code readability with its notable use of significant whitespace. No acronym.
  • Visual Basic

    Developed by Microsoft. Used to create softwares with easy graphical environment. No acronym.
  • PHP

    Developed by The PHP Development Team. Used as a server side scripting language. Hypertext Preprocessor is the acronym.
  • Javascript

    Developed by Netscape Communications Corporation. Used for client side scripting language into HTML page. JS is the acronym for Javascript.
  • Java

    Developed by Oracle Corporation. Used for complete applications on a single computer. No acronym.
  • ML

    Developed by Robin Milner. Used for general- purpose, functional program language. ML is short for Standard Meta Language.
  • Delphi

    Started in 2016 and updates every 6 months. Developed by Borland Software. Used for rapid application development of desktop, mobil, and web. No acronym.