Programming Languages Timeline

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  • plankalkul

    Konrad Zuse
    engineering

  • Fortan

    formula translator
    John Backus
    scientific applications that require extensive mathematical computations.

  • MATH-MATIC

    Charles Katz
    AT-3
    providing algebraic-style expressions and floating-point arithmetic, and arrays rather than record structures.

  • COBOL

    Grace Murray Hopper
    common business oriented language
    popular for business applications that run on large computers.

  • BASIC

    Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
    Developed by John Kemeney and Thomas Kurtz
    mid 1960's
    Business applications

  • lisp

    list processor
    artificial intelligence applications.
    John McCarthy

  • pascal

    Niklaus
    affinity to structured programming

  • logo

    Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert

  • b

    Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie

  • ADA

    late 1970's to 1980's
    Augusta Ada
    Business Applications, Rocket guidance Systems

  • C

    Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs in the mid 1970s.
    business programs to engineering

  • ml

    Robin Milner
    develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover

  • sql

    structured query language
    requesting information from a database

  • C++

    Bjarne Stroustrup. graphical applications

  • visual basic

    Microsoft
    graphical programming environment and a paint metaphor for developing user interfaces.

  • Java

    Sun Microsystems (green team)
    handheld devices and set-top boxes

  • python

    Guido van Rossum
    operating system platforms

  • php

    Hypertext Preprocessor
    open source, server-side, HTML embedded scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages.
    Rasmus Lerdorf

  • Javascript

    Netscape
    enable Web authors to design interactive sites

  • delphi

    generate native code for several platforms
    Embarcadero Technologies

  • rpg

    Report Program Generator
    IBM
    generating reports from data.