Computer Languages Timeline By Wendyconfer 1948 Plankalkul Developed by Konrad Zuse. First programming language designed for a computer. Period: 1948 to 1995 Computer Languages Timeline 1954 MATH-MATIC Developed by Charles Katz and team 1957 FORTRAN I Developed by John W. Backus and IBM. Used for numeric and scientific computing. 1959 COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language) Developed by Grace Murray Hopper The first user friendly business computer software program. 1959 LISP Developed by John McCarthy 1964 BASIC (Beginners’ All- Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) Developed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz 1964 RPG Developed by IBM 1967 LOGO Developed by Wally Feurzeig 1969 B Developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. The program was typeless. Everything was a word. 1970 Pascal Developed by Nicklaus Wirth and Kathleen Jensen 1972 C Developed by Dennis Ritchie. Static type system that prevents unintended operation. 1973 ML Developed by Robin Milner 1979 C++ Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup. This program is a combination of procedural and object oriented programming. 1980 ADA Developed by Jean Ichbiah and S. Tucker Taft 1986 SQL (Structural Query Language) Developed by Donald Chamberlain and Raymond Boyce 1989 Python Developed by Guido van Rossum 1991 Visual Basic Developed by Cooper and team for Microsoft 1995 Java Developed by James Gosling 1995 PHP Developed by Rasmus Lerdorf 1995 Javascript Developed by Brendan Eich 1995 Delphi Developed by Borland