Programming Language Timeline

  • PLANKALKUL

    This Program was developed from 1943- 1945 by Konrad Zuse. Plankalkul is the german translation of "Plan Calculus" and it was used for engineering purposes.
  • FORTRAN

    Fortran was developed by John Bakus and his team from IBM. The program is mainly used for scientific and numerical computation, which formulas are used. (FORmula TRANslating System)
  • MATH-MATIC

    Developed by Charles Katz. Math-Matic was made as a commercial compiler for the Univac. It was made as an improvement of earlier languages lie Fortran, A-0, and A-2
  • LISP

    Developed by John McCarthy.Lisp was created to make practical mathematical notations.. Lisp stands for LISt Proccesor because the majority of the program runs on lists
  • COBOL

    Cobol is a Buisness oriented programming language that was developed by CODASYL, ANSI, and ISO. Cobol is an acronym for common business-oriented language,
  • RPG

    RPG was developed by IBM in 1959. RPG is a business application that is made of a high level programming language. RPG stands for Report Program Generator
  • BASIC

    designed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz. BASIC's main purpose was to get people that were not mathematicians ans scientist involved with computers in their field. Basic stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
  • LOGO

    LOGO was developed by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert. This educational computer language was made for children. Logos is not an acronym but the derivative of the greek word for thought or word.
  • B

    Developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at Bells Lab. This language was designed for system and language software, which are recursive, non numerical, and machine independent. B derives from BCPL (Basic Combined Programming Language)
  • PASCAL

    Pascal was designed and developed by Niklaus Wirth. Pascal's main purpose was to encourage good programming techniques to college students. As well as creating a program that was applicable for both commercial and scientific applications. This language was names after the french scientist, Blaire Pascal.
  • C

    C wa developed by Dennis Ritchie. C is a general purpose language mainly used in portable devices and is one of the most popular languages today.
  • ML

    Created by Robin Milner and a group of the university of Edinburg. ML stands for metalanguage and its mostly applied in financial systems and in applications like databases,and peer-to-peer client/server programs
  • SQL

    SQL stands for Structured Query Language and it's main purpose is to organize relational databases. SQL was initially developed by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce at IBM
  • ADA

    Designed By Jean Ichbiah and his team of programmers and developed by the US DOD. ADA is primarily used for storage and sharing of sensitive or personal information. The name comes from the mathematician Augusta Ada Lovelace, also considered the first computer programmer.
  • C++

    Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup, C++ began as an updated version of C but it also was useful for desktop applications. C++ was previously called "c with class" but changed to C++ to give a feel of evolution from the original C language
  • PYTHON

    Python was developed by Guido Van Rossum. Python is used in GIS programming and is an object-oriented programming language
  • VISUAL BASIC

    Visual Basic was developed by Microsoft. Its purpose is to make a user friendly interface without the need of the syntax details.
  • PHP

    PHP was developed in 1994 by Rasmus Lerdorf. PHP is a server-side scripting language designed for web development. Its name is a recursive acronym for PHP Hypertext Preprocessor.
  • DELPHI

    developed by Anders Hejlsberg. Delphi is an object-oriented, visual programming approach to application development. Delphi was a project named when programmers from Borland were expanding their version of the pascal into an application builder with interfaces to databases such as Oracle.
  • JAVA

    developed by James Gosling. Java is an object oriented language and its designed to work in handheld devices and set-top boxes.
  • JAVASCRIPT

    Javascript was developed by Brendan Eich. This Program language was used across the Internet by both client and the servers