Programming Languages

Plankalkul

Sep 9, 1945

• Engineering purposes
• Konrad Zuse
• Not an acronym

Fortran

Sep 8, 1957

• Originally developed by IBM
• Stands for The IBM FORmula TRANslating System
• Used for scientific and engineering applications

Math-Matic

Sep 9, 1957

• Charles Katz
• Compiler
• Doesn't stand for anything

Lisp

Sep 9, 1958

• John McCarthy
• Used for mathematics, artificial intellegence
• Lisp = LISt Processing

COBOL

Sep 8, 1959

• Grace Hopper
• Stands for COmmon Business Oriented Language
• Used primarily for finance and manufacturing applications

RPG

Sep 9, 1959

• Stands for Report Program Generator
• Primarily developed by IBM
• Used for business applications

BASIC

Sep 8, 1964

• Acronym for Beginner's all-purpose symbollic instruction code
• John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz
• Made because they wanted to have more students learn computers and computer programming

Logo

Sep 9, 1967

• Daniel Bobro
• Graphical educational language
• Name comes from the greek work "logos" which means "word," as opposed to other languages that were numbers-based

B

Sep 7, 1969

• Name based on "Bon", another programming language
• Developed by Ken Thompson
• Used for Honeywell mainframes

Pascal

Sep 9, 1970

• Designed to effecitntly generate code
• Niklaus Wirth

ML

Sep 9, 1970

• MetaLanguage
• Robin Milner
• General purpose programming language

C

Sep 8, 1972

• Dennis Ritchie
• Has use in The Unix OS
• "C" isn't an acronym

ADA

Sep 7, 1980

• Named after Augusta Ada Lovelace
• Creation project led by Dr. Jean Ichbiah

- Used for high - security domains such as air traffic control, railroads, and medical things

SQL

Sep 9, 1981

• Designed for managine data
• Stands for Structured Query Language
• Developed by IBM

C++

Sep 8, 1983

• Bjarne Stroustrup
• C++ doesn't sand for anything but it has a "C" because it is the object - oriented version of the "C" programming language
• Can be used for pretty much everything from games to other complex programs

Pythos

Sep 9, 1989

• General purpose, high level language
• Guido Van Rossum

Visual Basic

Sep 9, 1991

• Developed by Microsoft
• One of the first languages with "graphical capabilities," used with businesses a lot
• Not an abbreviation

PHP

Sep 9, 1994

• Used for dynamic web applications
• Rasmus Lerdorf
• Stands for Personal Home Page

Delphi

Feb 3, 1995

• Contains similar programming tools used in Visual Basic
• Not an acronym
• Runs under Windows v.3.1 or Windows'95
• Used for creating standard windows programs

Java

Sep 8, 1995

• James Gosling
• Used for many web and desktop applications
• Not an acronym

Javascript

Sep 8, 2013

• Brendan Eich
• Doesn't stand for anything
• Used in web browsers