Programming History

By crz144

  • Plankalkul

    Developed by Konrad Zuse. Was used for Engineering and planning.

  • Fortran

    Developed by John Backus, IBM. General purpose, specifically suited to scientific computing and numeric computation. Stands for Formula Translating system.

  • MATHMATIC

    Developed by Charles Katz. Intended as an improvement over Fortran

  • Lisp

    Developed by Steve Russell, Timothy P. Hart, Mike Levin. List Processing. Favored program for AI development.

  • RPG

    Developed by IBM. Intended for use in business applications. Stands for Report Program Generator.

  • COBOL

    Developed by Grace Hopper, William Selden, Gertrude Tierney, Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, It is used in finance, business, and administrative systems for companies. Stands for Common Business-Oriented Language

  • BASIC

    Developed by John George Kemeny, Thomas Eugene Kurtz. General purpose programming. Stands for Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.

  • LOGO

    Developed by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert. It was used as an Educational Programming Language. Name adapted from Lisp.

  • B

    Developed by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, BCPL for microcomputers. Name is contraction of BCPL or maybe stands for Bon.

  • PASCAL

    Developed by Niklaus Wirth. A procedural programming language.

  • C

    Developed by Dennis Ritchie and Bell Labs. General Purpose Programming.

  • ML

    Developed by Robin Milner. General purpose programming. Possibly stands for metalanguage.

  • SQL

    Developed by ISO/IEC, Donald D. Chamberlain, Raymond F. Royce. Designed for managing data in a Relational Database Management System. Stands for Structured Query Language.

  • ADA

    Developed by Jean Ichbiah, maintained by Tucker Taft, General purpose programming. Used often in real time computer control systems.

  • C++

    Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup. Designed for General purpose programming.

  • Python

    Developed by Guido van Rossum, Python Software foundation. High-level programming with readable code.

  • Visual Basic

    Developed by Microsoft. Designed for rapid application development with GUI interface.

  • Delphi

    Developed by Borland. Used as a rapid application development tool.

  • Javascript

    Developed by Brandon Eich, Netscape Communications Corporation, Mozilla Foundation. Allows browsers to communicate with users easily.

  • Java

    Developed by James Gosling, It’s purpose is to allow developers to write general purpose code once, and have it run on any java virtual machine.

  • PHP

    Developed by Rasmus Lerdorf, PHP group. Used for Web development. Stands for Hypertext Preprocessor.