Programming Languages Timeline

By ThadWebb

  • Plankalkul was invented

    made by Konrad Zuse. worlds first high level computer language.

  • Fortran was invented

    made by John Backus and IBM. first compiler ever developed.

  • Math-Matic was invented

    developed by Charles Katz. it was the early programming language for UNIVAC 1 and 2.

  • COBOL was invented

    made by Grace Murray Hopper. made to be a user friendly business software. stands for Common Business Oriented Language.

  • Lisp was invented

    made by John McCarthy at MIT. created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs.

  • RPG was invented

    stands for Report Program Generator. 2nd most used language after COBOL. made for punch card machines.

  • Basic is invented

    stands for Beginners All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. made by John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtzas at Dartmouth as a teaching tool.

  • Visual Basic was invented

    3rd generation event driven programming language. made by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz.

  • Logo was invented

    Made by Apple inc. led by Wally Feurzeig and Seymore Papert. made for educational use.

  • B was invented

    made by D.M. Richie and K.L. Thompson.

  • ML was invented

    made by Robin Milner. Stands for meta language. uses Henry-Milner type algorithims.

  • Pascal was invented

    made by Niklaus Wirth. made to teach students structured programming.

  • SQL was invented

    made by Donald D. Chamberlin. designed for managing data and data base systems.

  • C was invented

    made by Dennis Ritchie. made with the purpose of creating a language that was capable of high level programming and would still allow the programmer to control individual bits of information.

  • C++ was invented

    made by Bjarne Stroustrup. made to develope commercial software packages.

  • ADA was invented

    named after ada lovelace. program designed by a team led by Jean Ichbiah. made to supercede hundreds of programming languages.

  • Java was invented

    made by the Green team led by James Gosling. made game consoles and appliances communicate.

  • Python was invented

    made by Guido van Rossum. successor to ABC language.

  • PHP was created

    made by Rasmus Lerdorf. stands for Personal Home Page. can jump between HTML and PHP.

  • Delphi was invented

    makes programming for windows easy. developed by borland.

  • JavaScript was invented

    makes web pages interactive. made by Brendan Eich.