Programing Languages

Plankalkul

Oct 19, 1948

creator- Konrad Zuse
purpose- programming language designed for engineering purposes
acronym- none

Fortran

Oct 19, 1957

creator- John Backus
purpose- numeric computation and scientific computing
acronym- FORmula TRANslation

MATH-MATIC

Oct 19, 1957

creator- same as fortran, used as an improvement
purpose- early programming language
acronym- none

Lisp

Oct 19, 1958

creator- John McCarthy
purpose- family of computer programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized Polish prefix notation
acronym- none

COBOL

Oct 19, 1959

creator- Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden, Gertrude Tierney
purpose- business
acronym-c ommon business-oriented language

RPG

Oct 19, 1959

creator- BM
purpose- high-level programming language (HLL) for business applications
acronym- Report Program Generator

BASIC

May 1, 1964

creator- John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz
purpose- high-level programming languages
acronym- Begginer's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

B

Oct 19, 1969

creator- Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie
purpose- recursive, non-numeric, machine independent applications, such as system and language software
acronym- none

LOGO

Oct 19, 1969

creator- Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert
purpose- educational programming language
acronym- none

PASCAL

Oct 19, 1970

creator- Niklaus Wirth
purpose- historically influential imperative and procedural programming language
acronym- none

C

Oct 19, 1972

creator- Dennis Ritchie
purpose- imperative computer programming language
acronym- none

ML

Oct 19, 1973

creator- Robin Milner & others at the University of Edinburgh
purpose- general-purpose functional programming language
acronym- none

SQL

Oct 19, 1974

creator- Donald D. Chamberlin
Raymond F. Boyce
purpose- special-purpose programming language designed for managing data held in a relational database management system (RDBMS), or for stream processing in a relational data stream management system (RDSMS)
acronym- Structured Query Language

C++

Oct 19, 1979

creator- Bjarne Stroustrup
purpose- general-purpose programming language
acronym- C Plus Plus

ADA

Oct 19, 1980

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creator- Jean Ichbiah
purpose- to be a general-purpose language
acronym- none

Python

Oct 19, 1991

creator- Guido van Rossum
purpose- widely used general-purpose, high-level programming language
acronym- none

Visual Basic

Oct 19, 1991

creator- Microsoft
purpose- third-generation event-driven programming language and integrated development environment (IDE)
acrpnym- VB

Java

Oct 19, 1995

creator- James Gosling and Sun Microsystems
purpose- concurrent, class-based, object-oriented,[12] and specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible
acronym- none

Javascript

Oct 19, 1995

creator- Brendan Eich
purpose- high level, dynamic, untyped, and interpreted programming language
acronym- none

PHP

Oct 19, 1995

creator- Rasmus Lerdorf
purpose- server-side scripting language designed for web development but also used as a general-purpose programming language
acronym- none