Programming Languages Timeline

  • Plankalkul "Plan Calculus"

    Released in 1948 by Konrad Zuse. It is a high-level programming language designed for a computer. Plankalkul is a German word for "Plan Calculus"
  • The IBM Mathematical FORmula TRANslating System

    Fortran is another name used for Formula TRANslating System. Designed for scientific and enginerring applications invented by John Backus in 1957.
  • Math-matic

    Math-matic
    programming language for UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II. designed and created by a group led by Charles Katz in 1957. It is another name for the AT-3 compiler Intended to be an improvement over FORTRAN.
  • Report Program Generator

    RPG stands for Report Program Generator in 1959 it was designed by IBM. Was a tool used to replicate punched card processing and later a programming language.
  • Cobol

    Cobol is an acronym for Common Business- Oriented Language. Designed by Grace Hopper William in 1959. It was mainly used to write programs for businesses.
  • "LISt Processing"

    Originally was a pratical mathematical notation for computer programs and later became a programming language for artificial intelligence. First Released 1958 designed by John McCarthy LISP is the acronym used for LISt Processing
  • Basic

    John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz designed the original BASIC programming language in 1964 at Dartmouth University to provide computer access to non-science students. BASIC is the acronym used for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
  • Logo

    Wally Feurzeig Seymour Papert firt released Logo in 1967. Logo was a multi-paradigm programming language used in education -
  • Bell Labs development

    B is a programming language that was developed at Bell Labs by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie in 1972. B is based on the BCPL language it was the BCPL system stripped of any component for primarily non-numeric applications such as system programming.
  • Pascual Programming

    Niklaus Wirth invented the program in 1970. It was created to encourage good programming practices. Named in honor of the French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal
  • ML

    Robin Milner designed in 1973 the program as a general-purpose programming language. ML is sometimes referred to as impure functional language.
  • C Programming Language

    Designed by, Dennis Ritchieand Ken Thompston in 1973. It was designed as for cross-platform programming. It was named C because its features were derived from B
  • SQL

    SQL stands for Structured Query Language it was designed by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce released in 1974. Made for managing data in relational database management systems,
  • Ada Programming Language

    Ada was named after Ada Lovelace who was the first computer programmer. Ada was designed by a team led by Jean Ichbiah under contract to the United States Department of Defense (DoD) from 1977 to 1983. Ada is designed for development of very large software systems.
  • C++

    Designed by, Bjarne Stoustrup released 1983. It was named, "C with Classes" was later changed to C++ which involved a pun towards the increment operator. -Started off as an enchancement to C
  • Python

    Python
    Python was designed in 1991 by Guido van Rossum as a designed as a general purpose high level program.
  • Visual Basic

    Alan Cooper is widely regarded as the father of Visual Basic. In 1987, Cooper developed ”Tripod,” an improved shell/desktop for the fledgling Windows operating system. Tripod became Microsoft’s “Ruby,” and Cooper led a team of engineers to deliver what ultimately became Visual Basic.
  • Javascript

    Javascript
    Designed as a scripting language used as part of a web browser. It is mainly used as a webpage enhancer. It was created by Brendan Eich at Netscap.
  • Java

    Java
    designed in 1995 by James Gosling and Sun Microsystems Java is used as a general purpose application program,
  • PHP

    designed for Web development to produce dynamic Web pages developed server-side scripting languages to be embedded into an HTML source document. Created in January 1995 by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995.
  • Delphi

    Delphi programming language was developed by Borland in 1995. Delphi has similar programming tools found in Microsoft Visual Basic 3.0.