Computer Language Timeline

  • Plankalkül

    Konrad Zuse designed this early language for engineering purposes only. Plankalkül is a German word that means "Plan Calculus."
  • Fortran

    computer-programming language created in 1957 by John Backus;it was made for scientific and mathematical computation. Its name derives from Formula Translating System.
  • MATH-MATIC

    MATH-MATIC was created by Charles Katz for the early UNIVAC I and II, It was meant to be an improvement to the preceding Fortran language.
  • Lisp

    This language was designed by John McCarthy and is known as one of the oldest programming language,Lisp was originally created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs.Its title refers to List Processing.
  • COBOL

    This language was designed by the Conference on Data Systems Languages involving such individuals as Grace Hopper, William Selden, and Jean Sammet.COBOL is primarily used in business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments.COBOL is an acronym for Common Business-Oriented Language.
  • RPG

    RPG was developed by IBM and was developed for business application.RPG stands for report program generator.
  • BASIC

    Basic was designed by It was created as a way for those not in the fields of mathematics or science to have the ability to use computers.Basic is an acroynm for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
  • Logo

    This language was designed by Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon educating people in computer science. Logos is from the Greek "logos" to show that it is more logic/thought oriented, rather than dictated by numbers.
  • B

    This language was developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. B was made for the early Multics operating system and was based mainly off the BCPL language. Its name is a short of its basis BCPL.
  • Pascal

    This language was ddeveloped by Niklaus Wirth. Its design was made for efficiency and education in programming. pascal is named after Blaise Pascal a French mathematician.
  • C

    C was developed by Dennis Ritchie for the reason of general use. its an important language that has found importance in the Unix operating system.
  • ML

    made by a team that was led by robin milner this language was used in programs associated with proving theorems. Its name comes from "metalanguage".
  • SQL

    SQL was developed by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce for managing data in RDBMSs. It stands for Structured Query Language.
  • C++

    developed by Bjarne Stroustrup this was another general purpose language, meaning it is used in several instances.
  • ADA

    Jean Ichbiah was the head of a team that created this language. It was developed to take the place of the several languages being used in that time for the US Department of Defense, and was named after Ada Lovelace.
  • Delphi

    This language was developed by an Apple team that was led by Larry Tesler and Niklaus Wirth. It is the primary language for Embarcadero Delphi, an IDE for varying devices.
  • Python

    Python was conceived in the late 1980s and its implementation was started in December 1991 by Guido van Rossum at CWI in the Netherlands as a successor to the ABC programming language capable of exception handling and interfacing with the Amoeba operating system.
  • Visual Basic

    visual Basic was made by Microsoft. It is based off of BASIC, and Microsoft intended Visual Basic to be relatively easy to learn and use. It was influenced and derived from the BASIC language.
  • Java

    Java was originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems. java was designed with the idea of "write once, run anywhere," which means that code can run on any platform without having to be changed.
  • JavaScript

    JavaScript was created by Brendan Eich at Netscape Communications Corporation, for the Netscape Navigator web browser.It is used for web browsers, video game development, and applications.
  • PHP

    PHP was developed by Rasmus Lerdorf it served the purpose of generating HTML code. PHP is from the hypertext preprocessor.