Programming Languages Timeline

  • Plankalkul

    Created by Konrad Zuse as one of the first high-level programming languages.
  • Fortran

    Created by John Backus for scientific and engineering applications.
  • MATH-MATIC

    Creaeted by a group led by Charles Katz as an improvement to FORTRAN.
  • Lisp

    Created by Steve Russell as a practical mathematical for computer programs
  • COBOL

    Created by Howard Bromberd, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden, and Gertrude Tierney for programming business applications.
  • RPG

    Created by IBM as a language for their operating system.
  • BASIC

    Created by John George Kemeny for an easy way to program personal or business computers.
  • LOGO

    Created by Dally Feurzeig for handleing list, files, and recursion of lists.
  • B

    Created by Bell Labs for non-numeric, recursive, machine indepedent applications.
  • PASCAL

    Created by Niklaus Wirth for object-oriented programming.
  • C

    Created by Dennis Ritchie for the Unix operating system.
  • ML

    Created by Robin Milner to support functional programming language and imperative programming language.
  • SQL

    Created by Donald Chamberlin for programming database servers.
  • ADA

    Developed by a team lead by Jean Ichbiah.
    It was developed for the DoD for their air and spacecraft weapons.
  • C++

    Created by Bjarne Stroustrup to be an extention to the C language for higher level programing.
  • Python

    Created by Guido van Rossum as a hobby becausee he was bored over Christmas break.
  • Visual Basic

    Created by Microsoft for its COM proramming model.
  • Delphi

    Created by Borland as a rapid appliction development tool for windows.
  • Java

    Created by James Gosling for client-server web applications.
  • JavaScript

    Created by Brendan Eich for Web based environments and PDF douments and desktop widgets.
  • PHP

    Created by Rasmus Lerdorf for web serversor as a Comon Gateway Interface.