Programming Languages Timeline

By MiguelUriostegui1
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    Plankalkul

    1942-1945, developed by Konrad Zuse, was the first high-level programming language to be designed for a computer.
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    Fortran

    1957, developed by John Backus,suited to numeric computation and scientific computing. Fortran (FORmula TRANslation)
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    MATH-MATIC

    1957,developed by Charles Katz and was the early programming language for UNIVAC I.
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    Lisp

    1958,developed by John Mc Carthy, primary purpose was to allow computers to process symbolic data in lists.
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    BASIC

    1964,designed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz, used for family of general purpose. BASIC(Beginners All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code)
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    LOGO

    1967, developed by Seymour Papert , known for its graphics capabilities and is often used for young school children as a basic method of programming
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    B

    1969,designed by D. M. Ritchie and K. L. Thompson. Was used for primarily non-numeric applications such as system programming.
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    ML

    1970,developed by Robin Milner and others, a general-purpose functional programming language
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    PASCAL

    1970, developed by Niklaus Wirth, was intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.
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    SQL (Structured Query Language)

    1970s, developed by Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce, language for relational databases
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    Delphi

    1971, devoped by Prof. Niklaus Wirth, primary programming language of Embarcadero Delphi
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    C

    1972, developed by Dennis M. Ritchie,general-purpose language
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    C++

    1979, developed by Bjarne Stroustrup, middle-level programming language
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    ADA

    1980, Dr.Jean Ichbiah, designed for large and long-lived applications
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    Python

    1980's,developed by Guido van Rossum, a widely used high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language
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    Visual Basic

    1991, designed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz, mainly lets users create programs by manipulating program elements graphically rather than by specifying them textually.
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    PHP

    1994, created by Rasmus Lerdorf,primarily for web development but is also used as a general-purpose programming language.
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    Java

    1995, developed by James Gosling, general-purpose programs
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    JavaScript

    1995,developed by Brendan Eich,its primary purpose was to support object-oriented programming and procedural programming
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    COBOL

    2002, designed by Grace Murray Hopper, designed for business use,COBOL(common business-oriented language)
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    RPG

    2009,developed by Brian Kelly, used for high-level programming language (HLL) for business applications