Programming Languages Timeline

  • Plankalkul

    Plankalkül (German pronunciation: [ˈplaːnkalkyːl], "Plan Calculus") is a programming language designed for engineering purposes by Konrad Zuse between 1942 and 1945. It was the first high-level (non-von Neumann) programming language to be designed for a computer.
  • Fortran

    Acronym for formula translator, FORTRAN is the oldest high-level programming language.
  • MATH-MATIC

    MATH-MATIC is the marketing name for the AT-3 (Algebraic Translator 3) compiler, an early programming language for the UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II.
  • Lisp

    Acronym for list processor, a high-level programming language especially popular for artificial intelligence applications. LISP was developed in the early 1960s by John McCarthy at MIT.
  • COBOL

    Common Business Oriented Language (COBOL) is the second-oldest high-level programming language and popular for business applications on large computers.
  • RPG

    (1) Short for Report Program Generator, a programming language developed by IBM in the mid-60's for developing business applications, especially generating reports from data. The newest version, RPG IV, is still widely used on AS/400 systems.
  • Basic

    BASIC is one of the earliest and simplest high-level programming languages
  • LOGO

    Logo is an educational programming language, designed in 1967 by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon.[1] "Logo" is not an acronym. It was derived from the Greek logos meaning word or "thought" by Feurzeig,[2] to distinguish itself from other programming languages that were primarily numbers, not graphics or logic, oriented.
  • B

    Short for session initiation protocol for business (SIP for Business) is a SIP-based protocol which allows advanced SIP features to be adopted for business telephony networks. SIP for Business does not modify the SIP standard in any way (nor does it propose any extensions or modifications to the SIP standard).
  • ADA

    A high-level programming language developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s for the United States Defense Department. Ada was designed to be a general-purpose language for everything from business applications to rocket guidance systems.
  • PASCAL

    Pronounced pass-kal. A high-level programming language developed by Niklaus Wirth in the late 1960s. The language is named after Blaise Pascal, a seventeenth-century French mathematician who constructed one of the first mechanical adding machines.
  • C

    A high-level programming language developed by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs in the mid 1970s.
  • ML

    a general-purpose functional programming language
  • SQL

    is a domain-specific language used in programming and designed for managing data held in a relational database management system or for stream processing in a relational data stream management system In comparison to older read/write APIs like ISAM or VSAM, SQL offers two main advantages: First, it introduced the concept of accessing many records with one single command, and second, it eliminates the need to specify how to reach a record, e.g.: with or without an index.
  • C++

    A high-level programming language developed by Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Labs. C++ adds object-oriented features to its predecessor, C.
  • Python

    An interpreted, object-oriented programming language developed by Guido van Rossum. The name comes from one of van Rossum's favorite television shows, Monty Python's Flying Circus. Python is very portable since Python interpreters are available for most operating system platforms.
  • Visual Basic

    A programming language and environment developed by Microsoft.
  • Delphi

    A Rapid Application Development (RAD) system developed by Borland International, Inc. Delphi is similar to Visual Basic from Microsoft, but whereas Visual Basic is based on the BASIC programming language, Delphi is based on Pascal.
  • Java

    A high-level programming language that is a commonly used foundation for developing and delivering content on the Web.
  • Javascript

    A scripting language developed by Netscape to enable Web authors to design interactive sites.
  • PHP

    An open source, server-side, HTML embedded scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages.