Programming Languages Timeline

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  • Plankalkul

    Plankalkul was developed by Konrad Zuse between 1943 and 1945. It is used for engineering and has features such as assignment statements, conditional statements, floating point arithmetic and more.
  • Fortran

    Developed by IBM in the 1950s, Fortran was designed to be used for mainly the field of science and engineering.
  • MATH-MATIC

    MATH-MATIC was derived from Grace Hopper, appeared in 1957, and was supposed to be an improvment of Fortran.
  • Lisp

    Lisp was designed by John McCarthy and has evolved through out the years and has had different uses such as dynamic typing, automatic storage management, and recursion.
  • COBOL

    COBOL is an acronym for COmmon Business-Oriented Language, was developed in 1959, was primarily designed by Grace Hopper, and has been revised over the years with one version being used for object-oriented programming.
  • RPG

    RPG programming language stands for Report program Generator. It was developed by IBM in 1959 and is used mainly for producing business reports.
  • BASIC

    BASIC was developed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz in 1964 and was designed for students not only in the fields of science and math but in others, too. It is an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
  • LOGO

    The LOGO programming language was developed by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert in 1967 and is both a sequential programming language and a functional. Greek for word.
  • PASCAL

    PASCAL was made by Niklaus Wirth between 1968 and 1969 and uses structured programming and data structuring.
  • C

    C was developed by Dennis Ritchie between 1969 and 1972. One way it is used is by maping out ways to perform machine instructions.
  • B

    The programming language B appeared in 1969 and was developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. When Thompson created it, he wanted it to be the parts of the BCPL system that he needed, without the parts he didn't so it would fit in the memory of a minicomputer.
  • SQL

    SQL programmimg language stands for Structured Query Language. It was developed by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce for managing data using features such as data definition language.
  • ML

    ML is a functional programming language that was developed by Robin Miller and one of its uses is that it has type safety. It also stands for Metalanguage.
  • Ada

    Ada was developed in the 1980's. It was invented by Jean Ichbiah and is used for the U.S. Department of Defense and long-lived applications.
  • C++

    Bjarne Stroustrup developed the C++ programming language in 1983 and started it out to be enhancements of the C language. It implements on many hardware devices and is used for such things like a compiler to native code.
  • Python

    Python was created by Guido van Rossum in 1989. One major feature of the programming language is dynamic name resolution for program execution.
  • Visual Basic

    Visual Basic ia a programming language that was designed by Microsoft as a way for users to create applications.
  • Delphi

    Delphi was a programming language that came from the PASCAL programming system and is good for reading code and syntax. It was developed by Borland around 1995.
  • Java

    Java programming language was developed by James Gosling and Sun Microsystems from 1991 to 1995 as an application that is simple and has high performance.
  • Javascript

    Javascript is a programming language that was developed by Brendan Eich and Netscape and has applications such as dynamic typing, functional and others. It also uses syntax that is from the programming language C.
  • PHP

    PHP stands for Personal Home Page. It was created by Rasmus Lerdorf for web development in 1995.