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Plankalkül (1948)
Invented by Konrad Zuse. It's name means Plan Calculus. It was created for engineering purposes. It was the first high level programming language used in a computer. -
Fortran (1957)
Short for "Formula Translation" Used for scientific programs like weather prediction. Invented by John Backus. -
MATH-MATIC (1957)
used in UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II in order to expand their usability past a limited number of words by reading overlaid information on the magnetic tape. -
Lisp (1958)
Short for "LISt Processor" and invented by John McCarthy. The second oldest high level programming language used today, behind Fortran. It is used in AI research. -
COBOL (1959)
Short for "COmmon Business Oriented Language" Invented by: Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, and Vernon Reeves. Mostly used by companies and in governments, however, because of it's decreasing popularity, programs written in COBOL are being ported to other languages. -
RPG (1959)
Only available on the platforms IBM i or OS/400. When RPG was first created, it's biggest advantage was the program cycle which caused every program to be executed within a loop. -
Basic (1964)
Short for "Beginner's All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code" Invented by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz. Easy to use. -
LOGO (1967)
Invented by Wally Feurzeig, Cynthia Solomon, and Seymour Papert. It's name comes from the Greek word logos which means thought. LOGO is an educational program designed to control a small robot. -
B (1969)
Invented by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. Forerunner to C. -
PASCAL (1970)
Invented by Niklaus Wirth. Used to teach people good programming practices. Named after Blaise Pascal. -
C (1973)
Invented by Dennis Ritchie. Allows cross platform programming. And it was one of the most popular programming languages. -
ML (1973)
Short for Meta Language and invented by Robin Milner, it's used to research other programming languages. -
SQL (1974)
It's name stands for Structured Query Language. it was the first programming language to allow you to access many records by typing one command, it also got rid of the obligation to tell the program how to get to a record. -
ADA (1980)
Invented by Jean Ichbiah. Uses english keywords, can find errors in code. -
C++ (1983)
Invented by Bjarne Stroustrup. It's main pro is it's software infrastructure, making it useful for large servers. -
Python (1991)
Created by Guido van Rossum. puts emphasis on the ability to easily read the code. -
Visual Basic (1991)
Designed to be easy to learn how to use and to navigate. In 2008 Microsoft ended support for Visual Basic 6.0. Visual basic has a steep learning curve. Mainly used to make applications for the Windows Operating System. -
PHP (1994)
Invented by Rasmus Lerdorf. Mainly used to develop websites. can be used for almost every operating system and platform. -
Java (1995)
Java can run on anything that supports Java without having to process it again based on the architecture. Java is one of the most popular coding platforms currently in use as of 2016. -
Javascript (1995)
Invented by "Brendan Eich" Supported by all modern web browsers. Used in World Wide Web domains and makes webpages interactive. -
Delphi (2008)
Delphi can be used to write desktop, mobile, and console programs. It is under active development and a new update is released every half year.