code Time line

By AdamU
  • Plankalkul

    Plankalkul was designed for engineering purposes by Konrad Zuse. It was the first high level programming language designed for a computer.
  • Fortran

    Derived from Formula Translation, Fortran is mainly used for numeric computation scientific computing. It was developed by John Backus and IBM
  • MATH-MATIC

    MATH-MATIC is the marketing name for AT-3(Algebraic Translator 3). It was written by a team led by Charles Katz, the program was mad for the UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II
  • Lisp

    Lisp is deprived from List Processor. It was designed by John McCarthy. It was created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs.
  • COBOL

    Developed by CODASYL and was partly based on code by Grace Hopper. It is popular to run on business applications that run on larger computers. COBOL stands for Common Business Oriented Language
  • RPG

    This is a high level programming language that was developed by IBM for business applications
  • BASIC

    Developed by John Kemeney and Thomas Kurtz. Its main purpose was to have a high level code that was fairly simple. BASIC stands for Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
  • LOGO

    Designed by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon. It is an educational programming language. The name is derived from the greek word logo meaning word or thought.
  • B

    Developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. The primary purpose was to reduce the BCPL program previously used to make it fit in minicomputers. There are multiple theories about the name of the program
  • PASCAL

    PASCAL is an imperative and procedural programming language, designed by Niklaus Worth as a small efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices.
  • C

    Developed by Dennis Ritchie, C is a general purpose, procedural computer programming language supporting structured programming.
  • SQL

    this is a domain specific language used in programming and designed for managing data. It was designed by Donald Camberlin and Raymond Boyce.
  • ADA

    It was developed by HOWLG with the intent to reduce the number of codes used by the US department of defense. It was named after Augusta Ada Byron.
  • ML

    Also known as Standard Meta Language. It is a general purpose, modular, functional programming language with compile-time type checking with type interference. it was designed by Robin Milner
  • C++

    Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup. C++ adds object-oriented features to its predecessor
  • Python

    Python is a interpreted, high level, general purpose designed by
    Guido van Rossum. Its philosophy emphasizes code readability
  • Visual Basics

    Visual basics was designed to be easy to learn and is a high level program. The developer of visual basics was Microsoft.
  • PHP

    PHP is a general purpose program designed by Rasmus Lerdorf. it was originally designed for web development and originally stood for Personal home page but now stands for Hypertext Preprocessor
  • Java

    Developed by sun microsystems and designed by James Gosling. It is a general purpose programming language that is class based and object oriented.
  • Javascript

    Designed by Brendan Eich, Javascript is a high level, interpreted scripting language that conforms to ECMAScript specifications.
  • Delphi

    Delphi was developed by Embarcadero technologies and is designed as a integrated development environment for rapid application development