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Programming Languages Timeline

By AlanP

  • Plankalkul

    • 1948, Konrad Zuse, designed for engineering purposes, Plan Calculus

  • Fortran

    • 1957, John Backus, a general-purpose, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing, The IBM Mathematical Formula Translating System

  • Math-Matic

    • 1957, Charles Katz, Intended as an improvement over FORTRAN,

  • Lisp

    • 1958, John McCarthy, originally created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs, derives from "LISt Processing"

  • COBOL

    • 1959, Grace Hopper, used in business finance and administrative systems for companies and governments , COmmon Business-Oriented Language

  • RPG

    • 1959, IBM, a high-level programming language for business applications, Report Program Generator

  • Basic

    • 1964, John George Kemeny andThomas Eugene Kurtz, family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages, Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.

  • LOGO

    • 1967, Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig,Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon, a multi-paradigm computer programming language used in education

  • B

    • 1969, Ken Thompson, stripped down version of BCPL

  • PASCAL

    • 1970, Niklaus Wirth, intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.

  • C

    • 1972, Dennis Ritchie, general purpose, stands for computing

  • ML

    • 1973, Robin Milner and others in the early 1970s at the University of Edinburgh, it was conceived to develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover, ML stands for metalanguage

  • SQL

    • 1974, Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce, a special-purpose programming language designed for managing data in relational database management systems, Structured Query Language

  • ADA

    • 1980, Jean Ichbiah, originally targeted at embedded and real-time systems, named after Ada Lovelace

  • C++

    • 1983, Bjarne Stroustrup, compiler to native code, see plus plus

  • Python

    • 1991, Guido van Rossum, made programming code more readable

  • Visual Basic

    • 1991, Microsoft, designed to be relatively easy to learn and use

  • Javascript

    • 1994, Brendan Eich, open source client-side scripting language

  • Java

    • 1995, James Gosling and Sun Microsystems, designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible

  • PHP

    • 1995, Rasmus Lerdorf, designed for Web development to produce dynamic Web pages, Personal Home Page

  • Delphini

    • I have no idea about this one