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Programming Languages Timeline

  • Plankalkul

    Developed in 1945
    Developed by Konrad Zuse
    Primary purpose was enigineering
    Stands or mean "Plan Calculus"
  • MATH-MATIC

    Developed in 1957
    Developed by Charles Katz
    Primary use was business data processing
  • Fortran

    Designed by John Backrus
    Primary purpose putting easier equatons in the computer , and for computer architectures
    Stands for Formula Translation orTranslator
  • Lisp

    Developed by Steve Russel , Timothy Hart and Mike Levin .
    Designed by John McCarthy
    Appeared in 1958
    Primary purpose was for math notations for computer programming
  • RPG

    Developed in 1959
    Developed by IBM
    Primary purpose is for business aplications
    Stands for Report Program Generator
  • COBOL

    Appeared in 1959
    Stands for Common Business Oriented Language
    Created by a a commitee of researchers who consisted of Grace Hopper, William Selden, Gertrude Tierney, Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, and Jean E. Sammet
    Developed for business applications
  • BASIC

    Developed in 1964
    Acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
    Developed by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz
    Primary purpose was to give non-science people access to computers
  • LOGO

    Designed and developed by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert
    Developed in 1967
    Primary purpose to teach computer science concepts
  • B

    Developed in 1969
    Developed by Ken Thompson & Dennis Ritchie
  • SQL

    Developed in 1972
    Developed by IBM
    Stands for Structured Query Language
    Primary use was to manage data in databases
  • C

    Developed by Dennis Ritchie
    Appeared in 1972
    Used for implementing system software
    Was developed to be used on the Unix Platform
  • ML

    Developed by Robin Milner
    Stands for metalanguage
    Developed in 1973
    Primary purpose was to develop proof tactics
  • ADA

    ADA
    ADA was developed in 1980
    ADA was developed by Jean Ichbiah
    Purpose of the program was to be designed for large , long lived applications which need effiency and reliabilty.
    Ada isn't an acroynm , was named after a mathematician named Augusta Ada Lovelace .
  • C++

    Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup in 1983
    Extension of program language C
    Known as "C with Classes"
    Primary purpose is to support procedural programming, generic programming, object-oriented programming and data abstraction
  • Python

    Developed in 1989
    Designed by Guido van Rossum
    Developed by Python Software Foundation
    Primary purpose used for scripting language and to read codes better
  • Java

    Created by James Gosling and colleagues
    Developed to have as few dependencies
  • Visual Basic

    Developed in 1991
    Developed by Microsoft
    Stands for Visual Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
    Primary purpose is to be easily assessed by beginner programmers
  • Javascript

    Developed to make webpages more interactive
    Designed by Brendan Eich
    Developed in 1994
  • PHP

    Primary purpose was to build dynamic web pages
    Devloped in 1995
    Developed by PHP Gropu
    Designed by Rasmus Lerdorf