Programming Languages Thomas Sasser

  • Plankalkul

    A computer language designed for engineering. Designed by Konrad Zuse between 1943-45.
  • Fortran

    Developed by IBM in the 1950s for scientific and engineering applications.
  • MATH-MATIC

    Created by Charles Katz in 1957, it was made as an improvement for FORTRAN.
  • Lisp

    Designed in 1958 by Steve Russell, Lisp was made for Polish prefix notation.
  • COBOL

    COBOL stands for COmmon Business-Oriented Language. It was designed by Grace Hopper in 1959 for businesses and finances.
  • RPG

    Stands for Report Program Generator. Developed by Wilf Hey at IBM in 1965 for easy production of sophisticated large system reports.
  • BASIC

    BASIC stands for Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. It was designed in 1964 by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. It was created to provide computer access to non-science students.
  • LOGO

    This was used in education. Created in 1967 by Wally Feurzeig.
  • B

    B is a language designed by D.M. Ritchie and K.L. Thompson in 1969. It was created for non-numeric applications. It was developed at Bell Labs.
  • PASCAL

    Pascal is a programming language designed by 1968-69 and published 1970 by Niklaus Wirth intended to encourage good programming practices.
  • C

    C was developed by Dennis Ritchie between 1969 and 73 at AT&T Bell Labs. It provides constructs that map efficiently to typical machine instructions.
  • ML

    ML is a general purpose language for programming developed by Robin Milner in the early 1970s. Stands for Met Language.
  • SQL

    Stands for Structured Query Language and is a programming language designed for managing data in relational database management systems. Created in 1974 and designed by Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce.
  • ADA

    ADA was designed by Jean Ichibah of CII Honeywell Bull. This was created for the US Department of Defense from 1977-83 to replace the hundreds of programming languages the used by the DOD. ADA was named for Ada Lovelace, who is known as the first computer programmer.
  • C++

    C++ is a general-purpose programming language. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell Labs. It adds object oriented features to the C programming language
  • Visual Basic

    Created in 1991 by Microsoft. Developed to be relatively easy to learn and use.
  • Python

    Used for general purpose programming. Created by Guido Van Rossum released in 1991.
  • Delphi

    Delphi is a programming language for desktops, mobile, web, and console applications. It was used to generate several platforms including, Windows, OS X, and Android.
  • Java

    It was designed to run a code on one platform and doesn't need to be recompiled to run on another. Designed in 1995 by the Oracle Corporation.
  • Javascript

    Javascript is a scripting language that is dynamic typed and has first-class functions. Javascript is one of the three core technologies of the World Wide Web.
  • PHP

    One of the first developed server-side scripting languages to be embedded into an HTML source document rather than calling an external file to process data. It was created in 1995, created by Rasmus Lerdorf.