Programming Languages - Jacob Miller

  • Plankalkul

    Konrad Zuse | One of the first
  • MATH-MATIC

    Team led by Charles Katz
  • Fortran

    Team led by John W. Backus at IBM
  • Lisp

    Created by John McCarthy
  • COBOL (COmmon Business Oriented Language)

    The CODASYL Committee | Many internet jokes about it being a COnfusion Based unOriented Language
  • BASIC

    John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz at Dartmouth College
  • RPG (Report Program Generator)

    Developed by IBM | Shares the same acronym as a video game genre
  • Logo

    Designed by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert
  • B

    Ken Thompson
  • Pascal

    Named after the mathematician. Designed by Niklaus Wirth and Kathleen Jensen
  • C

    Dennis Ritchie & Bell Labs
  • SQL (Structured Query Language)

    Developed by IBM
  • ML (Meta Language)

    Robin Milner
  • ADA

    ADA 80 by Jean Ichbiah at Cll Honeywell Bull
  • C++

    Bjarne Stroustrup
  • Python

    Designed by Guido van Rossum | Named after Monty Python
  • Visual Basic

    Designed by Alan Cooper and sold to Microsoft
  • Delphi

    Borland Delphi by Anders Hejlsberg at Borland
  • Java

    James Gosling at Sun Microsystems
  • JavaScript

    Brendan Eich at Netscape
  • PHP (Personal Home Page)

    Rasmus Lerdorf