Programming Languages Timeline

  • ADA

    Named after the first computer programmer. Ada Lovelace
  • FORTRAN

    Created for scientific and engineering applications.
  • MATH-MATIC

    Created by a group led by Charles Katz
  • LISP

    Lisp was originally created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs, influenced by the notation of Alonzo Church's lambda calculus.
  • COBOL

    Designed by the CODASYL. Created as part of a US Department of Dense effort to create a portable programming language for data processing.
  • RPG-IBM

    Report Program Generator
    a high-level programming language (HLL) for business applications.
  • BASIC

    John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz designed it. They wanted to enable students in fields other than science and mathematics to use computers.
  • LOGO

    is an educational programming language, designed in 1967 by Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon.
  • B

    Developed at Bell Labs circa. It is the work of Ken Thompson with Dennis Ritchie.
  • PASCAL

    published in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth as a small and efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.
  • C

    Developed by Dennis Ritchie. Used to re-implement the Unix operating system.
  • ML

    is a general-purpose functional programming language developed by Robin Milner and others in the early 1970s at the University of Edinburgh,whose syntax is inspired by ISWIM.
  • SQL

    Structured Query Language
    Originally based upon relational algebra and tuple relational calculus, SQL consists of a data definition language, data manipulation language, and a data control language.
  • PYTHON

    Its design philosophy emphasizes code readability, and its syntax allows programmers to express concepts in fewer lines of code than would be possible in languages such as C++ or Java.
  • Visual Basic

    a legacy third-generation event-driven programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft for its COM programming model
  • JAVA

    James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, and Patrick Naughton initiated the Java language project in June 1991. Java was originally designed for interactive television, but it was too advanced for the digital cable television industry at the time.
  • JAVASCRIPT

    JavaScript was originally developed in 10 days in May 1995 by Brendan Eich, while he was working for Netscape Communications Corporation. Indeed, while competing with Microsoft for user adoption of web technologies and platforms, Netscape considered their client-server offering a distributed OS with a portable version of Sun Microsystems' Java providing an environment in which applets could be run.
  • PHP

    designed for web development but also used as a general-purpose programming language.
  • DELPHI

    Delphi was originally developed by Borland as a rapid application development tool for Windows
  • C++

    Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup. Designed to be an efficient and flexible language similar to C.
  • Plankalkül

    First modern language. Described in 1943, but not implemented until 1998. Designed by Konrad Zuse.