Programming Languages Timeline

  • PLANKALKUL

    The First High-Level Programming
    Raúl Rojas, Cüneyt Göktekin, Gerald Friedland, Mike Krüger
  • FORTRAN

    purpose Language for scientific computations
    by john backus
  • COBOL

    by Flow-matic, Fortran
    purpose dramatically reduces development costs and improves application and organizational performance
  • RPG

    Report Program Generator
    Query tool extended in a programming language for IBM
  • BASIC

    Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
    Invented by Kemeny and Kurtz
    purpose program Microsoft's applications
  • logo

    by Harold Abelson
    designed to support constructive learning
  • PASCAL

    Name of a french mathematician
    by pascal
  • C

    by Dennis Ritchie
    purpose to program the Unix operating system
  • ADA

    Cii Honeywell/Bull created it.
    it helped the
    Government (Department of Defense)
    Banking systems
    Commercial aviation
    Communications systems
    Computer-Aided Design
    Manufacturing
  • C++

    by Bjarne Stroutstrup
    purpose to add object orientation to C while remaining compatible
  • MATH-MATIC

    Programming language that uses algebraic notation for expressions
  • PYTHON

    Scripting interpreted language
    by Guido Van Rossum
  • VISUAL BASIC

    Resources to help you build, manage and learn about your apps
  • JAVA

    by Sun's
    purpose Along the free compiler comes a complete collection of APIs, graphical and other, that is a standard
  • SQL

    used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results
  • DELPHI

    by Borland, now at Embarcadero
    purpose supporting the growing heterogeneous mix of Windows and Apple devices, UI approaches, OS versions, and emerging form factors
  • PHP

    Personal Home Page Hypertext Processor
    A PHP script produces web pages, and may be embedded inside HTML code as JavaScript but works server side
    by Rasmus Lerdorf
  • JAVASCRIPT

    purpose to enable scripting in some applications of markup languages (PDF, photoshop, XUL, use JavaScript) and even for system programming
    by the ECMA group
  • B

    designed by D. M. Ritchie and K. L. Thompson
    purpose processing of integers, characters, and bit strings
  • ML

    a mult-paradigm language
    by Mads Tofte
  • LISP

    LISP
    by John McCarthy
    purpose exact typography