Programing Languages Timeline

By nwang10

  • Plankalkül

    Designed by Konrad Zuse, used as an engineering programming language.

  • Fortran

    Designed by John Backus, used for general purpose programming for numerical and scientific computing.

  • MATH-MATIC

    Created by Charles Katz, used as a programming language for UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II.

  • Lisp

    Designed by John McCarthy, used as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs.

  • RPG

    Developed by IBM, used as a report program generator.

  • COBOL

    Designed by Grace Hopper, stands for COmmon Business Oriented Language, used busines, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments.

  • BASIC

    Designed by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz, stands for Beginner's all-purpose symbolic instruction code, used for supporting mathematical work.

  • LOGO

    Designed by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, used for "turtle graphics", which controls a robot named the "turtle" on a screen that draws line graphics.

  • B

    Designed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, used for recursive, non-numerical, machine independent applications, like system and language software.

  • PASCAL

    Designed by Niklaus Wirth, used for structured programming and data sturcturing.

  • C

    Designed by Dennis Ritchie, used for structural programing and cross-platform programming,

  • ML

    Designed by Robin Milner and others at the University of Edinburgh, stands for MetaLanguage, used as a mathematic language.

  • SQL

    Developed by ISO and IEC, primarily used for managing data held in a relational database management system.

  • ADA

    Designed by a team led by Jean Ichbiah, used for supporting systems, synchronous message passing, run-time checks, and developing very large software systems.

  • C++

    Designed by Bjarne Stroustrup, used for systems programming, desktop applications, servers, performance critical applications, and entertainment software.

  • Python

    Designed by Guido van Rossum, used for general purposes, as a high level programming language.

  • Visual Basic

    Developed by Microsoft, used for creating applications and Graphic User Interface applications.

  • JavaScript

    Designed by Brendan Eich, used for web browsers, and controling browsers.

  • Delphi

    Developed by Embarcadero Technologies, used as an IDE for consoles, desktop graphical, web, and mobile applications.

  • Java

    Designed by James Gosling and Sun Microsystems, used for applications and programs that are intended to be written once, and could be run anywhere.

  • PHP

    Designed by Rasmus Lerdorf, used for web development and general purposes.