Programming Languages Timeline

By 1372541
  • 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 Has been superseded by C.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.