Computer programming language time line

  • Plankalkul

    Konrad Zuse, made for engineering purposes, means formal system for planning
  • Fortran

    IBM, devolped for scientific and engineering applications. Stands for formula translating system.
  • MATH-MATIC

    charles katz, was intended as a improvement over fortran
  • Lisp

    John mccarthy, created as praticical mathmatical notation for computer programs, name comes from LISt Processing
  • COBOL

    Grace Hopper, used for business, Common Business-Oriented Language
  • RPG

    IBM, high level programming language for business,
  • Basic

    John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz, designed for ease of use and for beginners. stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
  • LOGO

    Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon. Was a educational computer programming language.
  • B

    Ken Thompson, made to fit within the memory of mini computers of the time. Possibly stands for bon another computer language he also devolped
  • C

    Dennis Ritchie, a general purpose language.
  • PASCAL

    niklaus wirth, made for structed programming and data structuring
  • ML

    made by rob milner and others at the university of edinburgh, made as a general purpose functional programming language, stands for metal language
  • SQL

    Donald D. Chamberlin Raymond F. Boyce, made for database management, stands for structured query language.
  • C++

    Bjarne Stroustrup
  • ADA

    Jean Ichbiah, devolped for the Department of defense to to supersede the hundreds of programming languages then used by the DoD. Ada was named after ada lovalace.
  • Java

    James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, and Patrick Naughton. Java was originally designed for interactive television, but it was too advanced for the digital cable television industry at the time
  • Python

    Guido van Rossum, general purpose high level programming language
  • Visual Basic

    Microsoft, third-generation event-driven programming language and integrated development environment.
  • Delphi

    Borland
  • Javascript

    Brendan Eich. Mainly used as part of web browsers.
  • PHP

    Rasmus Lerdorf, server side scripting language for web devolpment, Personal Home Page it now stands for Hypertext Preprocessor