Programming Languages Over Time

Plankalkul

Jun 13, 1948

-Developed by Konrad Zuse
-Developed for engineering purposes
-Name is not an acronym but is German for “Plan Calculus”

Fortran

Jun 13, 1950

-Developed by IBM in California
-Developed for numeric computation and scientific computing
-Name is an acronym for Formula Translating System

Delphi

Jun 13, 1955

-Developed by Borland
-Developed to make programming for Windows easy.
-Name is not an acronym; it started out as a beta codename for the project.

MATH-MATIC

Jun 13, 1957

-Developed by Charles Katz
-Developed to improve the FORTRAN programming
-The name is not an acronym, but is the marketing name for the AP-3 Compiler

Lisp

Jun 13, 1958

-Developed by John McCarthy
-Developed for practical mathmatical notations for programs
-Name is an acronym for “List Processing Language”

C++

Jun 13, 1959

-Developed by Grace Hopper
-Developed to be used for businesses and finance.
-Name is an acronym for “Common Bussiness Oriented Language”

RPG

Jun 13, 1959

-Developed by IBM'
-Devloped as punch card processing
-Name is an acronym for “Report Program Generator”

BASIC

Jun 13, 1964

-Developed at Dartmouth by John Kemeny and Thompson Kurtz
-Developed for easier use.
-Name is an acronym for “Beginer's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code”

LOGO

Jun 13, 1967

-Developed by Seymour Papert and Wally Feurzeig
-Developed as an adaption to th Lisp programming language for educational purposes though originally made as a functional programming language.
-Name is an acronym for “Logic Oriented and Graphic Oriented”

B

Jun 13, 1969

-Developed by Dennis M. Ritchie and Ken L. Thompson
-Designed primarily for non-numeric applications
-Complex logical decision making and the processing of intergers, characters and bit strings.
-It's name was taken from the BCPL language. It was an extract from that language to fit in “Minicomputers” at that time.

Pascal

Jun 13, 1970

-Devloped by Nikalous Wirth
-Developed to encourage practicing
-Name is not an acronym, but it was named in honor of Blaise Pascal

C

Jun 13, 1972

-Developed by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs.
-Developed to create a language that was capable of giving high level independence to machine programs while the programer could still control the some of the individual bits of information.
-The name is not an acronym but also a branch off of another program, like the B.

ML

Jun 13, 1973

-Developed at the University of Edinburgh by Robin Miner
-Deloped for general purpose functional programming
-Name is an acronym for “Metal language”

SQL

Jun 13, 1974

-Developed by Raymond F. Boyce
-Devloped to manage data held in RDBMS
-Name is an acronym for “Structured Query Language”

ADA

Jun 1, 1980

-Developed by Dr. Jean Ichbiah's team in France
-Designed for large and long living applications that needed to be reliable.
-Revised( ADA 95) in early1990's by Mr. Tucker Taft
-The first internationally standardized Object-Oriented Language.
-Name is not an acronym; it was named after the first programmer (Augusta Ada Lovelace)

Python

Jun 13, 1991

-Developed by Guido Van Rossum
-Developed for emphasis on code readability and clarity
-Name is not an acronym.

Visual Basic

Jun 13, 1991

-Developed by Microsoft
-Developed for ease to learn and use
-Name is not an acronym

Java

Jun 13, 1995

*Not to be confused with JavaScript
-Developed by James Gosling and Sun Microsystems
-Developed for ease of use with as little “implementation dependencies” (as little problems as possible with programming)
-Name is not an acronym.

PHP

Jun 13, 1995

-Developed by Rasmus Lerdorf
-Developed for Web development
-Name is an acronym for “Personal Home Page”

JavaScript

Jun 13, 1995

-Developed by Brendan Eich
-Developed for user interaction with the browser
-Name is not an acronym.