Development of Computer Languages

By Terry B

  • Plankalkul

    Designed by Conrad Zuse.
    Designed for engineering purposes.

  • Fortran

    Developed in 1957, Designed by John Backus.
    This language is good for numeric computation and scientific computing. Good for scientific and meteorology purposes.

  • MATH-MATIC

    Designed by a group, which was led by Charles Katz.
    This language was an early language for the UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II, also was meant to be an improvement over FORTRAN.

  • Lisp

    Designed by John McCarthy
    Useful language for Artificial Intelligences.
    Lisp was named from "LISt Processing".

  • COBOL

    Stands for "Common Business-Oriented Language."
    Developed in 1959.
    Used for mainly business purposes.
    Designed by 7 people: Grace Hopper, William Selden, Gertrude Tierney, Howard Bromburg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, and Jean Sammet.

  • BASIC

    BASIC stands for "Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code".
    It was developed by Thomas Kurtz and John Kemeny around 1964.
    Developed for anyone to learn to create custom programs on their computer with ease.

  • Logo

    Designed by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Soloman.
    Used (and highly known for) "Turtle Graphics".

  • B

    Developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie.
    Based on BCPL language.
    It was designed for system and language software.

  • Pascal

    Designed by Niklaus Wirth.
    Small & effecient language, good to encourage programming practice.

  • C

    Developed by Dennis Ritchie around 1969-1973.
    Used for creating Computer Programs.

  • ML

    Designed by Robin Milner and other people at The University of Edinburgh.
    ML was created to make proof tactics in the LCF Theorem Prover.

  • SQL

    Designed by Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce.
    Special-purpose language. Used for managing data held in a Relational Database Management System.
    Stands for "Structured Query Language".

  • ADA

    Named after Augusta Ada Byron.
    Designed for large, long-lived applications.
    Developed by Dr. Jean Ichbiah and his team of programmers.

  • C++

    Designed for multiple things such as Systems Programming, Servers, Video Games, etc.
    Designed by Bjarne Stroustrup.

  • Python

    Designed by Guido Van Rossum.
    This language is used often, it's a general-purpose and high-level language.

  • Visual Basic

    Developed by Microsoft.
    Visual Basic was intended to be easy to learn and use. It is a third-generation event-driven language. Developed from the BASIC language and enables "rapid application development of graphical user interface".

  • Delphi

    Language for consoles, mobile, web, or desktop graphical applications.
    Originally created by a company named Borland.
    First version was released in 1995.

  • Java

    Designed by James Gosling and Sun Microsystems.
    Java was developed to be able to run on any platform that was a Java Virtual Machine.
    A general-purposed language, it was developed to have very few implementation dependancies.

  • JavaScript

    Designed by Brendan Eich.
    This language is usually used for webpages.

  • PHP

    Designed by Rasmus Lerdorf.
    Designed for web development, but can also be used for general-purpose programming. Can be mixed with HTML code.
    Stands for Hypertext Preprocesser.

  • RPG

    Developed by IBM.
    High-level programming language for business applications.
    RPG stands for "Report Program Generator".