Progamming Language Timeline By Rohaid Bakheet

By rb1715

  • Plankalkul

    Made by Konrad Zuse
    Purpose is to be used for engineering problems

  • Fortran

    Stands for Formula Translating System
    Made by John Backus and IBM
    "Made for numeric and scientific computing"

  • MATH-MATIC

    Also known as AT-3
    Made by Charles Katz and the group he lead
    Purpose is to be used by the UNIVAC I and UNIVAC 11

  • Lisp

    Made by John McCarthy
    Purpose was to be "a practical mathematical notation for computer programs"

  • RPG

    Name stands for Report Program Generator
    Made by IBM
    Purpose is to be used for "business applications"

  • COBOL

    Name stands for Common Business-Oriented Language
    Developed by Conference on Data Systems Language
    Purpose is to be used by bussinesses for finance

  • BASIC

    Name stands for Begginer's All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
    Made by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz
    Was made to let students who weren't into math or science fields learn programming

  • LOGO

    Made by Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, Cynthia Solomon
    Purpose is to be an educational math program

  • B

    Made by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie
    Designed to be used for system and language software

  • PASCAL

    Made by Niklaus Wirth
    Purpose was "to teach students structured programming"

  • ML

    Also known as Meta Language
    Made by Robin Milner
    Purpose is to be used for mathametic and scientific calculations

  • C

    Made by Dennis Ritchie
    Purpose was to "reimplement Unix system"

  • SQL

    Name stands for Structured Query Language
    Made by Donald D. Chamberlin, Raymond F. Boyce
    Purpose is "to manage and stream data in a relation data stream management system"

  • C++

    Made by Bjarne Stroustrup
    Purpose is to be an easy tool for progammers to make programs

  • ADA

    Named after Ada Lovelace
    Designed by Jean Ichbiah
    Purpose is "to improve saftey and maintainability of programs"

  • Python

    Made by Guido Van Rossum
    Purpose was that "programmers could write concepts with fewer lines of code"

  • Visual Basic

    Made by Microsoft
    Purpose is to "let progammers easily make applications"

  • Delphi

    Name is a reference to the Oracle of Delphi
    Made by Borland
    Helps make software for "desktops , internet, console and mobile applications"

  • Java

    Made by James Gosling
    Primary purpose is to make programs and be able to "run on all platforms"

  • Javascript

    Also known as ECMA script
    Made by Brendan Eich
    Purpose is to be used in web browsers , PDFs and to allow manipulation of memory

  • PHP

    Name stands for Hypertext Preprocessor
    Made by Rasmus Lerdorf
    Purpose is for web development