Computer Languages

By jdwerden

  • Plankalkül

    Plankalkül (Plan Calculus) was created in 1948 by Konrad Zuse for engineering purposes.

  • Fortran

    Fortran or Formula Translating System was designed in 1956 by John Backus for mathematical and scientific computation.

  • MATH-MATIC

    Created in 1957 by Charles Katz MATH-MATIC was created to be an improvement of Fortran.

  • Lisp

    LISp or LISt Processing was created in 1958 by John McCarthy as mathematical notation for programs.

  • COBOL

    COBOL stands for COmmon Business-Oriented Language and originates in 1959. It was created by Grace Hopper and is used priamrily for bussiness applications.

  • RPG

    RPG or Report Program Generator was created in 1959 by IBM for programming bussiness applications.

  • BASIC

    BASIC stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. Designed in 1964 by John George Kemeny and developed by Thomas Eugene Kurtz. It was designed to be a language that was easy to use. Many languages such as Visual BASIC are based off of BASIC

  • Logo

    Based off of Lisp, Logo was created in 1967 by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert for functional programming.

  • B

    B was made for use on mainframes. Written by Ken Thompson and further developed by Dennis Ritchie. Saw use up until the ninties. Predecessor to C and C based languages.

  • PASCAL

    Created in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth PASCAL was created to be an imperative and procedural programming language.

  • C

    C
    C is a language created by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs in 1972 for general purpose computing. It is based off of B and it has many variants such as C++.

  • ML

    ML or metalanguage was created by group spear-headed by Robert Milner at U Edinburgh for general-purpose function programming.

  • SQL

    SQL or Structured Query Language was created in 1974 by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce for managing data.

  • ADA

    ADA
    Named after Ada Brody/Lovelace ADA is a language initially created off of elements from Pascal in 1980 by Jean Ichbiah to be used for large, time standing applications. Newer versions use code by Tucker Taft.

  • C++

    Designed by Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Labs in 1983 C++, like C is a general purpose language.

  • Delphi

    Delphi AKA Objective PASCAL was created in 1986 by Niklaus Wirth and Anders Hejlsberg at Apple for use with graphical applications.

  • Python

    Python was created in 1991 by Guido van Rossum as a general purpose programming language. It is quite popular for web design and application purposes.

  • Visual Basic

    Visual Basic was created by Microsoft in 1991. Elements of it originate from many older high level languages such as Basic but Visual Basic is supposed to be relatively easy to learn. It's primary purposes are for programming Windows based applications.

  • Java

    Java was created in 1995 by James Gosling at Sun for object oriented, general purpase coding.

  • JavaScript

    Created by Brendan Eich in 1995 JavaScript is primarily used for programming web applications.

  • PHP

    Originally standing for Personal Home Page, PHP was created in 1995 by Rasmus Lerdorf for web design and web application programming.