Code Language timeline

  • plankalkul

    Created by Konrad Zuse. Created for engineering purposes.
  • Fortran

    created to make programming easier to access. Created by John Backus
  • MATH-MATIC

    created by Remmington Rand. Created to allow larger more complex codes on the UNIVAC machines.
  • Lisp

    Created by John McCarthy. Created to be used as a general purpose language and is used for AI
  • COBOL

    Designed for business use. created by the CODASYL
  • RPG

    Created by IBM for Business applications
  • BASIC

    BASIC is an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code and was designed to be easy to use as general purpose code. It was created by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz
  • LOGO

    Created by Beranek and Newman, a technology firm. Used to create line graphics on screen or with a turtle robot.
  • B

    Created by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs. The primary purpose of this language was for recursive and machine independent application.
  • PASCAL

    Created by Niklaus Wirth. Intended to structure programming and create good programming practices
  • C

    Bell labs- Dennis richie. General purpose coding but mostly used for operating systems and applications.
  • ML

    created by Robin Milner. Created as a general use language but is used to operate on other languages.
  • SQL

    Created by IBM. Created to manage data in databases.
  • ADA

    Created by Jean Ichbiah. Primarily used for object oriented programming
  • c++

    created for system programming and embedded systems. created by Bjarne Stroustrup
  • Python

    created by Guido van Rossum. Created for more readable code in fewer lines than c++ or java
  • Visual Basic

    Used for rapid app development and is meant to be easy to use as it is derived from BASIC. created by Microsoft.
  • PHP

    Created by Rasmus Lerdorf. Created to aid web-development.
  • Delphi

    intended to be an easy to use high level language. Created by Embarcadero technologies
  • Java

    Created by James Gosling. Created to have very few implementation dependencies.
  • JavaScript

    Created by Brenden Eich. Mostly used to make websites interactive.