Computer Programming Languages

Plankalkul

Jan 1, 1948

Konrad Zuse
Designed for engineering purposes

Fortran

Jan 1, 1954

Formula Translating System
John Backus and IBM
General-purpose, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing.

MATH-MATIC

Jan 1, 1957

Grace Hopper
Early programming language for UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II. Intended as an improvement over FORTRAN. Created by a group led by Charles Katz in 1957.

LISP

Jan 1, 1958

LISt Processing
John McCarthy
Practical mathematical notation for computer programs, influenced by the notation of Alonzo Church's lambda calculus.

COBOL

Jan 1, 1959

COmmon Business-Oriented Language
Grace Hopper
Primary domain in business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments.

RPG

Jan 1, 1959

Report Program Generator
IBM
A tool to replicate punched card processing on the IBM 1401

BASIC

Jan 1, 1964

Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz
They wanted to enable students in fields other than science and mathematics to use computers.

LOGO

Jan 1, 1967

Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon
The language was originally conceived to teach concepts of programming related to LISP

B

Jan 1, 1969

Ken Thompson, with contributions from Dennis Ritchie
B was essentially the BCPL system stripped of any component that Thompson felt he could do without, in order to make it fit within the memory capacity of the minicomputers of the time.

PASCAL

Jan 1, 1969

Niklaus Wirth
Small and efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.

C

Jan 1, 1972

Dennis Ritchie
General-purpose programming language

ML

Jan 1, 1973

MetaLanguage
Robin Milner
General-purpose functional programming language

SQL

Jan 1, 1974

Structured Query Language
Donald D. Chamberlin, Raymond F. Boyce
Special-purpose programming language designed for managing data held in a relational database management system (RDBMS).

ADA

Jan 1, 1977

Named after Ada Lovelace
Jean Ichbiah
Has built-in language support for explicit concurrency, offering tasks, synchronous message passing, protected objects, and non-determinism.

C++

Jan 1, 1983

Bjarne Stroustrup
General purpose, statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm and compiled.

Java

Jan 1, 1991

James Gosling
Concurrent, class-based, object-oriented, and specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible.

Python

Jan 1, 1991

Guido van Rossum
General-purpose, high-level programming language.[12][13][14] Its design philosophy emphasizes code readability, and its syntax allows programmers to express concepts in fewer lines of code than would be possible in languages such as C.

Visual Basic

Jan 1, 1991

Microsoft
Third-generation event-driven programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft for its COM programming model.

PHP

Jan 1, 1994

Personal Home Page
Rasmus Lerdorf
Server-side scripting language designed for web development but also used as a general-purpose programming language.

Delphi

Jan 1, 1995

Embarcadero Delphi
Borland
Integrated development environment (IDE) for console, desktop graphical, web, and mobile applications.[1]

JavaScript

Jan 1, 1995

Brendan Eich
It is most commonly used as part of web browsers, whose implementations allow client-side scripts to interact with the user, control the browser, communicate asynchronously, and alter the document content that is displayed.