Computer programming

Programming Languages Timeline

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  • Plankalkul

    Plankalkul
    Plankalkul was developed in 1948, by Konrad Zuse. This is a computer language designed for engineering purposes.
  • Fortran

    Fortran
    Fortran is a programming language developed by John Backus, and is a general purpose especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing.
  • Math-matic

    Math-matic
    Math-matic is a programming language developed by a group led by Charles Katz. It was a improvement over Fortan, and was a programming language for UNIVAC l and UNIVAC ll.
  • Lisp

    Lisp
    Lisp is a programming language, developed by Steve Russell, Timothy P. Hart, and Mike Levin. It was created as a pratical mathematical notation for computer programs.
  • LOGO

    LOGO
    LOGO was developed in 1967, by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert. It is a graphic oriented education programming language. LOGO is a acronym for "Logic Oriented Graphic Oriented".
  • COBOL

    COBOL
    COBOL is a programming language that was developed by a woman name Grace Hooper. This is a acronym for "Common Business-Oriented Language". It was designed to recommend a short range approach to a common business language.
  • RPG

    RPG
    RPG is a high level programming lanaguage developed in 1959, by IBM.This program was designed for business applications, and is a acronym that stands for Report Program Generator.
  • BASIC

    BASIC
    BASIC is a programming language developed by a man name John G. Kemeny. This program was designed to enable students in fields other than science.
  • B

    B
    B is a programming language that was developed by Ken THompson. This was one database known as the computer word.
  • PASCAL

    PASCAL
    PASCAL is a programming language developed by Niklaus Wirth. It is a small and efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structures.
  • ML

    ML
    ML is a programming language developed by Robin Milner in the early 1970's.This language was conceived to develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover.
  • SQL

    SQL
    SQL was developed in 1974 by ISO/IEC. It was designed for managing data held in a relational database management system.
  • ADA

    ADA
    ADA is a programming language named after Ada Lovelace and was also developed by Jean Lchbiah. This program was designed for the United State Department of Defense to supersede the hundreds of programming languages then used by the D.O.D.
  • C

    C
    C is a programming language, that was developed by Dennis Ritchie. It's a general purpose that was designed to provide contructs that map efficiently to typical machine instructions.
  • C++

    C++
    C++ is a programming language, that was designed by Bjarne Stroustrup, and it's purpose is to write software for hardware.
  • Python

    Python
    Phython was developed in 1991, by a man name Gurton Van Rossum. This language allows programmers to express concepts in fewer lines of code.
  • Visual Basic

    Visual Basic
    Visual Basic is a programming language developed by Microsoft. It allows a programmer to create a application using components provided by the program itself.
  • Delphi

    Delphi
    Delphi is a programming language designed to provide database connectivity to programmers as a key feature and a popular database. It was also developed by Danny Thorpe.
  • JAVA

    JAVA
    Java is a program developed by James Gosling and the Sun Microsystems. It's purpose is to have as few implementation dependencies as possible.
  • Javascript

    Javascript
    Javascript is a program developed by Brendan Eich. It's purpose is to allow client-side scripts to interact with the user, ocontrol the browser, communicate asynchronously, and alter the document content that is displayed.
  • PHP

    PHP
    PHP is a programming language developed by Rasmus Lerdorf. It was designed for web development, and was also used as a general-purpose programming language.