Programming History Timeline

  • Fortran -- Formula Translation

    Developed by John Backus and IBM. Useful for Science.
  • MATH-MATIC

    Program for the UNIVAC. Developed by Remington Rand.
  • LISP -- List Processor

    Steve Russell, Timothy Hart, and Mike Levin developed this general-purpose language.
  • COBOL -- Common Business-Oriented Language

    As the name suggests, this language is used for business. Developed by CODASYL, ANSI, and ISO.
  • RPG -- Report Program Generator

    Used primarily in business. Developed by IBM.
  • BASIC -- Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

    John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz developed this language for beginners.
  • LOGO

    Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, Cynthia Solomon developed this language to help prepare people for working with this language's counterpart, Lisp.
  • B

    Developed by Ken Thompson for language software.
  • PASCAL

    Designed by Niklaus Wirth. Seems to have been a training language for other languages.
  • C

    Developed by Dennis Ritchie and Stephen Johnson. General-purpose.
  • ML -- Meta Language

    General-Purpose. Developed at the University of Edinburgh.
  • SQL -- Structured Query Language

    Developed by ISO.
  • Ada

    Jean Ichbiah developed this for large programs
  • C++

    General-Purpose language developed Bjarne Stroustrup
  • Visual Basic

    Developed by Microsoft to be similar to BASIC, but more focused towards the graphics.
  • Python

    A general-purpose language designed by Guido van Rossum. (My personal favorite)
  • Delphi

    Developed by Borland. For programming Windows.
  • Java

    Designed by James Gosling. My research suggests that it is general-purpose.
  • PHP

    Developed by Rasmus Lerdorf. Used by website developers.
  • JavaScript

    Main use is for website construction and development. Developed by Brendan Eich.