History of Programming Languages

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  • Plankalkul

    Plankalkul was designed by Konrad Zuse for engineering use.

  • Fortran

    Fortran (which comes from Formula Translating System) was designed by IBM as an all purpose programming language.

  • Lisp

    John McCarthy developed Lisp while at MIT for mathmatical notation for computer programs.

  • COBOL

    COBOL was designed by the Conference on Data Systems Languages (CODASYL) for business use.

  • RPG

    Report Program Generator (RPG) was developed by IBM for business applications.

  • Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (BASIC)

    Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (BASIC). Created by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz. BASIC was created so people other than math and science students could use computers.

  • LOGO

    LOGO was designed by Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon as an educational programming language.

  • B

    B was created by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie for system and language software.
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    C

    Designed by Dennis Ritchie to impliment the Unix operating system

  • Pascal

    Developed by Niklaus Wirth as a procedural and structured programming language.

  • ML

    Developed by Robin Milner as a general purpose programming language. ML comes from Metalanguage.

  • SQL

    Structure Query Language (SQL) was developed by IBM for managing data held in a relational database management system.

  • ADA

    ADA was created by a group called the High Order Language Working Group for the Department of Defense; the latter was concerned about the number of outdated programming languages already being used and requested a new one.

  • C++

    Bjarne Stroustrup developed C++ as a general purpose programming language geared toward system programming.

  • Delphi

    Object oriented Pascal

  • Python

    Guido van Rossum designed Python as a general purpose programming language.

  • Visual Basic

    Visual Basic is a programming language designed by Microsoft designed to be easy to learn and use.

  • PHP

    Rasmus Lerdorf desgined Personal Home Page (PHP) as a web development language.

  • Java

    Developed by James Gosling, Java was designed to be able to run on multiple platforms, so that the programmer can "Write Once Run Anywhere (WORA), a slogan used by the company Gosling worked for, Sun Microsystems.

  • JavaScript

    JavaScript was designed by Brendan Eich for web developers.