Programming Languages Timeline

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  • Plankalkul

    developed by Konrad Zuse, developed for engineering purposes, is german for plan calculus.
  • Fortran

    Fortran was developed by John W. Backus, to develop a more practical alternative to assembly language for programming his companys IBM 704 mainframe computer, It stands for Formula Translating System.
  • MATH-MATIC

    It was created by Charles Katz, It was developed to be an improvement for fortan.
  • Lisp

    the people who developed Lisp are;Steve Russell, Timothy P. Hart, and Mike Levin. It was developed to be a practical mathmatical notation for computer programs. It stands for list processing.
  • COBOL

    Cobol was designed by the Conference on Data Systems Languages, It was designed for buisiness use, It stands for common business-oriented language.
  • RPG

    developed by IBM to be The Report Program Generator,stands for Report Program Generator
  • BASIC

    BASIC was developed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz,It was developed to to enable students in fields other than science and mathematics to use computers, It stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
  • LOGO

    Logo was developed by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert, It was created to teach concepts of programming.Logic Oriented Graphic Oriented is what Logo stands for.
  • B

    It was developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, it was designed for use on multics, B is a contaction of BCPL.
  • PASCAL

    cretaed by Niklaus Wirth, developed to encourage good programming practices, named after a mathematician named Blaise Pascal
  • C

    It was developed by Dennis Ritchie, It was used to re-impliment the unix system.
  • ML

    It was developed by Robin Milner, It was made to develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover, It stands for metalanguage.
  • SQL

    Was developed by ISO/IEC, designed for managing data held in a relational database management system, stands for Structured Query Language
  • ADA

    developed by Dr. Jean Ichbiah, purpose was to maintain larger systems, the letters stand for the middle name of Lord Byrons daughter.
  • C++

    It was designed by Bjarne Stroustrup, designed for system programming and embedding.
  • Python

    was created by Guido van Rossum, made to be a interpriter for a scripting language.
  • Visual Basic

    Developed by Microsoft, was created so that everyone can use it,
  • Delphi

    was developed by Borland, Its purpose was a rapid application development tool.
  • Java

    It was developed by James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, and Patrick Naughton. It was used for for interactive television,
  • Javascript

    The program was developed by Brendan Eich, It was developed to write the content for the world wide web.
  • PHP

    It was designed by Rasmus Lerdorf, It was designed for web development, It stands for Hypertext Preprocessor.