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.