Programming Languages Timeline

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  • Plankalkul

    Plankalkul was developed by Konrad Zuse. It was designed to be used for engineering purposes.

  • Fortran

    A general purpose language primarily suited for numeric computation and scientific computing. Developed at IBM by John Backus

  • MATH-MATIC

    MATH-MATIC was developed as an improvement over FORTRAN. It was developed by Charles Katz.

  • Lisp

    Lisp is the second-oldest language still in widespread use. Lisp has been the favored language for artifiicial intelligence research.

  • COBOL

    One of the oldest progamming languages, COBOL was mostly designed by Grace Hooper in 1959.

  • RPG

    RPG is a high-level language for business applications. IBM developed RPG in 1959.

  • BASIC

    An easy-to-learn language. The original Dartmouth BASIC was developed in 1964 John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz.

  • LOGO

    LOGO is an adaption of the Lisp language. It was developed for educational use.

  • B

    Developed at Bell Labs by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. Has been superseded by C.

  • PASCAL

    PASCAL was developed by Niklaus Wirth. He intended the language to be used to encourage good programming practices.

  • C

    Developed by Dennis Ritchie at AT&T Bell Labs. One of the most widely used progamming languages.

  • ML

    ML was developed by Robin Milner at the University of Edinburgh. It is known for its use of Hindley-Milner interference algorithim, which ensures type safety.

  • SQL

    SQL is a special purpose language designed for managing data in relational database management systems. It was developed at IBM by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce.

  • ADA

    Developed by the Department of Defense to supersede all other progarmming languages used by the Department at that time.

  • C++

    Developed at Bell Labs by Bjarne Stroustrup. A intermediate-level language, it is also one of the most popular languages.

  • Delphi

    Delphi is based on Pascal and was developed by Apple Computer and Larry Tesler. The language is most known for being the primary language of Embarcadero Delphi.

  • Python

    Python is a general purpose language that emphasizes readability. It was developed by Guido van Rossum at CWI in the Netherlands.

  • Visual Basic

    Visual Basic was designed by Microsoft. The language is event-driven and relatively easy to use and learn.

  • Javascript

    Javascript is an open source language that is usually implemented as a part of a web browser.

  • Java

    Java is a general purpose language that is designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible.

  • PHP

    PHP was developed by Rasmus Lerdorf. It is an open source language for web development.