Programming Languages Timeline

  • Plankalkul

    Developed by John Backus
    Language was made for engineering purpose
  • MATH-MATIC

    Developed by Remington Rand
    Purpose is to preform mathematical problems
  • Fortran

    Developed by IBM
    Designed to allow easy translation of math formulas into code.
  • Lisp

    Developed by John McCarthy
    The purpose is for data structures
  • RPG

    Developed by IBM
    This language is a report-building program
  • BASIC

    Developed by John G. Kemeny
    This language is for beginners all purpose symbolic Instruction Code
  • LOGO

    Developed by Wally Feurzeig
    Purpose is to debug programs
  • PASCAL

    Developed by Niklaus Wirth
    purpose is to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.
  • B

    Developed by Ken Thompson
    The purpose of this language was for system development
  • ML

    Developed by Robin Milner
    general purpose language
  • C

    developed by Dennis Ritchie
    This language is for general-purpose
  • SQL

    Developed by Donald D. Chamberlin
    This language is a short for Structured Query Language.
  • ADA

    Designed by Jean Ichbiah
  • Visual Basic

    Developed by Alan Cooper
    This language is to choose and modify preselected sections of code written in the BASIC programming language.
  • Python

    Developed by Guido van Rossum
    This is a general purpose programming language
  • PHP

    Developed by Rasmus Lerdorf
    This language is a general-purpose scripting language
  • Cobol

    developed by Hopper
    Purpose for this language is for business and administrative purposes
  • Java

    Developed by James Gosling
    The purpose of this language is to create application
  • Javascript

    Developed by Brendan Eich
    Purpose is to control web pages on the client side of the browser, server-side programs, and even mobile applications
  • Delphi

    Developed by Anders Hejlsberg
    The purpose of this language is a general purpose object oriented language
  • C++

    Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup
    The purpose for this is a general-purpose object-oriented programming