Programming Languages Timeline

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  • Plankalkul

    Designed by Konrad Zuse. Designed for engineering purposes. First high level programming language.

  • Fortran

    Developed by John Backus. FORTRAN stands for Formula Translation. Is a general purpose language.

  • MATH-MATIC

    Is an algebriac translator. Designed by Remington Rand.

  • Lisp

    Developed by Steve Russell. It is a family of computer programming languages.

  • COBOL

    Developed by Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden and Gertrude Tierney. COBOL stands for Common Business Oriented Language.

  • RPG

    Developed by IBM. High level programming language. Stands for Report Program Generator.

  • BASIC

    Basic was developed by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz. It was developed to help scientists and mathematicians. BASIC stands for Beginners All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

  • LOGO

    Developed by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon. It is a educational programming language.

  • B

    Was developed in 1969 and was developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. To be used on Multics. B is from BCPL.

  • PASCAL

    Designed by Niklaus Wirth. It is a procedural programming languange. Known as object Pascal.

  • C

    Developed by Dennis Ritchie and Bell Labs. It is a high level programming language.

  • ML

    ML stands for Meta Language and was developed by Robin Milner. Is a functional programming language.

  • SQL

    Developed by ISO and designed by Donald Chamberlin. Its a domain specific language. Stands for Structured Query Language.

  • ADA

    ADA was developed in February 1980. Developed by Jean Ichbiah. Its a high level programming language. ADA stands for the woman who was the first computer programmer. Ada Lovelace.

  • C++

    Developed in 1983. It is a general purpose language. Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup.

  • Python

    Developed by Python Software Foundation and Designed by Guido van Rossum. Used for general purpose programming.

  • Visual Basic

    Developed by Microsoft. It is an event driven programming language. Was derived from basic

  • Javascript

    Is a high level advanced programming language. Developed by Netscape Communications Corporation, Mozilla Foundation, Ecma International.

  • JAVA

    is a general purpose programming language. Developed by James Gosling.

  • PHP

    Developed by The PHP Development Team. Designed by Rasmus Lerdorf. PHP stands for Personal Home Page and is a server side language.

  • Delphi

    Developed by Embarcadero Technologies.