history of programming languages

  • Plankalkul

    Plankalkul is a programming language designed for engineering purposes. It was developed by Konrad Zuse
  • Fortran (Formula Translating System)

    Fortran was developed by John Backus and IBM. Fortran was the first widely used programming language.
  • MATH-MATIC

    It was developed by Charles Katz. It was intended as an improvement over FORTRAN
  • Lisp

    Lisp is the second oldest high level programming language. It was designed by John McCarthy. It was created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs
  • COBOL (Common Buisiness Oriented Language)

    COBOL is a compiled programming langauge designed for business, finance, and administrative systems. It was designed by Grace Hopper, William Selden, Gertrude Tierney, Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet
  • RPG

    RPG is a high-level programming language for business applications. It was designed by IBM
  • BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code)

    BASIC is a family of all purpose, high level programming languages. Designed by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz. It was designed as an easy to use programming software
  • LOGO

    Logo is an educational programming language. It was designed by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert. It is best known for its "turtle graphics"
  • B

    Created by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. Designed for recursive, non-numeric applications.
  • Pascal

    Pascal is a small and efficient programming language to encourage good programming practices. It was developed by Niklaus Wirth.
  • C

    C was developed by Dennis Ritchie. C was designed to be an assembly language.
  • ML (meta language)

    ML is a general purpose programming language. It was developed by Robin Milner.
  • SQL (Structured Qwerty Language)

    SQL is a special-purpose programming language designed for managing data held in a relational database management system. It was designed by Donald D. Chamberlin and
    Raymond F. Boyce.
  • ADA

    Named after Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer. Made for embedded and real time systems. ADA was made by Jean Ichbiah
  • C++

    C++ was designed by Bjarne Stroustrup. It was designed as a general purpose language.
  • Python

    Python is a widely used general-purpose, high-level programming language. It was designed by Guido van Rossum
  • Visual Basic

    Visual Basic is a third-generation event-driven programming language and integrated development environment. It was designed by Microsoft
  • Delphi

    Delphi was designed by Borland. This was designed to make programming easier on Windows
  • Java

    Java was designed by James Gosling and
    Sun Microsystems. It was intended to write once, run anywhere. that means it can run on any platform
  • Javascript

    Javascript is commonly used on web browsers. It was developed by Brendan Eich.
  • PHP

    PHP is a server side scripting language for web development. It was designed by Rasmus Lerdorf