Programming History

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  • Plankalkul

    Plankalkül (German for "Plan Calculus") was designed for engineering purposes.

  • Fortran

    Developed by John Backus and IBM as a general purpose programming language.

  • MATH-MATIC

    Designed by Remington Rand. MATH-MATIC is the marketing name of the Algebraic Translator 3. It was an early

  • Lisp

    Developed by Steve Russell, Timothy P. Hart, and Mike Levin. It was designed to be a practical mathematical notation for computer programs.

  • COBOL

    COBOL (common business-oriented language) was designed by Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden and Gertrude Tierney. COBOL was developed for use in business applications.

  • RPG

    RPG (Report Program Generator) was developed by IBM. It was developed for use in business applications.

  • BASIC

    Developed by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz. Its was developed as a general purpose programming language.

  • Logo

    Developed by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon. It was designed as an educational programming language.

  • B

    Developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. It was developed for recursive , non-numeric, machine independent applications such as language software.

  • Pascal

    Pascal was designed by Niklaus Wirth and was meant to an efficient language for data structuring.

  • C

    Developed by Dennis Ritchie. Developed as a general-purpose language.

  • ML

    Designed by Robin Milner. ML (Meta Language) was designed as a general purpose programming language.

  • SQL

    Donald D. Chamberlin developed SQL for data management systems.

  • ADA

    Developed by Jean Ichbaih. Designed for large software systems.

  • C++

    Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup as a programming language for graphical aplications.

  • Python

    Python was designed by Guido Van Rossum. It is a high level, general purpose programming language.

  • Visual Basic

    Visual Basic was developed by Microsoft as a programming language for beginners.

  • Delphi

    Delphi was developed by Borland. It was designed as an integrated development environment for windows.

  • Java

    Developed by James Gosling as a general purpose programming language.

  • Javascript

    Developed by the Netscape Communications Corporation, Mozilla Foundation and Ecma International. It was designed as a language for use in the internet applications.

  • PHP

    PHP was created by Rasmus Lerdorf. It was designed for web development. PHP stands for Personal Home Page.