Computer Timeline

  • Plankalkul

    Designed by Konrad Zuse. (“Plan Calculus”) a German madel language designed for engineering purposes.
  • MATH-MATIC

    Written beginning around the beginning of 1955. Marketing name from the AT-3. Designed by Remington Rand.
  • Fortran

    “Formula Translation” is a general-purpose, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric and scientific computation developed by IBM.
  • Lisp

    The second-oldest high-programming language in widespread used today. It is multi-paradigm languge: functional, procedural, reflective and meta. Developed by Steve Russell, Timothy P. Hart and Mike Levin.
  • RPG

  • COBOL

    (Common business-oriented language) a compiled English-like computer programming languages designed for business use. Developed by Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden and Gertrude Tierne.
  • BASIC

    (Basic All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) high-level programming language that emphasized ease of use. Developed John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz
  • LOGO

    Not an acronym. Derived from the Greek word “logos” meaning word or thought. Developed by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon.
  • B

    Primarily used for non-numeric application such as programming developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie
  • PASCAL

    Designed by Niklaus Wirth and an imperative and procedural language.
  • C

    General purpose, imperative computer programming language supporting and structured programming developed by Dennis Ritchie
  • ML

    (Standard Meta Language) is a functional and imperative language. Is popular along compiler writers. I cannot find the developers
  • SQL

    (Standard Query Language) developed by ISO/IEC it is a domain-specific language designed for managing data held in a relational database management system.
  • C++

    Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup. It’s biased towards stsytem programming and embedded, resource-constrained applications, including desktop applicatons.
  • Python

    A multi-paradigm language: object-oriented, imperative, functional, procedural and reflective. Developed by Python Software Foundation. Emphasizing code readability.
  • Visual Basic

    Third generation event driven programming language environment from Microsoft for its Component Object Model. Developed by Microsoft.
  • ADA

    An object-oriented high-level programming language developed by Tucker Taft
  • Delphi

    Developed by Borland and is the descendant of Turbo Pascal. It is an object oriented language, is compiled code and uses visual programming tools.
  • Java

    Developed by James Gosling and is a multi-paradigm language. It is object oriented, class-based and concurrent. Java was designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible.
  • Javascript

    Often abbreviated as JS, developed by Brenda Eich. It is a high-level, dynamic, weakly type, object-based, multi-paradigm and interpreted programming language.
  • PHP

    Developed by the PHP Development Team, Zend Technologies. An imperatice, object oriented, procedural and reflective language.