NOberlin_ProgramTimeline

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  • Plankalkul (Plan Calculus)

    Developed In: 1944 Developed By: Konrad Zuse Primary Purpose: Creation of procedures

  • Fortran

    Developed In: 1957 Developed By: John Backus and IBM Primary Purpose: Scientific and Engineering programming

  • Lisp (List Processing)

    Developed In: 1958 Developed By: John McCarthy Primary Purpose: Easy manipulation of data strings

  • COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language)

    Developed In: 1959 Developed By: Grace Hopper Primary Purpose: To solve business problems.

  • RPG (Report Program Generator)

    Developed In: 1959 Developed By: IBM Primary Purpose: Create and maintain programs in that language

  • B

    Developed In: 1969
    Developed By: Ken Thompson and Denns Ritchie
    Primary Purpose: Primarily used in non-numeric applications, typically involving complex logical decision making.

  • BASIC (Beginners’ All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code)

    Developed In: 1964 Developed By: John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz Primary Purpose: Served as a way for students to write simple computer programs

  • LOGO

    Developed In: 1967 Developed By: Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon Primary Purpose: Use of turtle graphics, which is moving and drawing a line or graphics.

  • PASCAL

    Developed In: 1970 Developed By: Niklaus Wirth Primary Purpose: Teaching programming as a systematic discipline and to develop reliable and efficient programs

  • C

    Developed In: 1972 Developed By: Dennis Ritchie Primary Purpose: To write operating systems

  • ML (Meta Language)

    Developed In: 1973 Developed By: Robin Milner Primary Purpose: General-purpose, modular, functional programming

  • SQL (Structured Query Language)

    Developed In: 1974 Developed By: Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce Primary Purpose: Communicating with a database

  • ADA

    Developed In: First appeared in 1980 Developed By: Dr. Jean Ichbiah Primary Purpose: It improves code safety and maintainability

  • Python

    Developed In: 1991 Developed By: Guido van Rossum Primary Purpose: Developing web and desktop applications

  • Visual Basic

    Developed In: 1991 Developed By: Microsoft Primary Purpose: Create software interface and codes in an easy to use graphical environment

  • Delphi

    Developed In: 1995 Developed By: Anders Hejlsberg Primary Purpose: Primarily used to build applications for Windows systems.

  • Java

    Developed In: 1995 Developed By: Sun Microsystems Primary Purpose: Creating web applications and programs

  • Javascript

    Developed In: 1995 Developed By: Brendan Eich Primary Purpose: Making web development easier and more attractive

  • MATH-MATIC

    Developed In: 1995 Developed By: Charles Katz and Grace Hopper Primary Purpose: Makes UNIVAC available to all, programmers and non-programmers alike.

  • PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor)

    Developed In: 1995 Developed By: Rasmus Lerdorf Primary Purpose: Server-side web development

  • C++

    Developed In: 1998 Developed By: Bjarne Stroustrup Primary Purpose: To make writing good programs easier