Programming Languages Timeline

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  • Plankalkül

    Developed by Konrad Zuse. Designed for engineering purposes.

  • Fortran

    Acronym for Formula Translating System. Developed by IBM and John Backus, and used for scientific and numeric computing.

  • MATH-MATIC

    Marketing name for the AT-3 compiler. Intended as improvement over FORTRAN. Created by group, led by Charles Katz.

  • Lisp

    Developed by Steve Russell, Timothy Hart, and Mike Levin. Second oldest programming language in use today, Fortran being the oldest. Used for mathematical notation of computer programs.

  • COBOL

    Acronym for Common Business-Oriented Language.
    Designed by CODASYL, ANSI, and ISO for business use, finance use, and administrative systems.

  • RPG

    Developed by IBM, and designed for business applications.

  • BASIC

    Acronym for "Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code"
    Designed by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz. The software was used used to help businesses make custom programs for an affordable cost.

  • Logo

    Developed by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert. An educational programming language which produces movement and drawing of lines.

  • B

    Built at Bell Labs around 1969, by Ken Thompson and Dennie Richie
    This was a programming language that Thompson used for Multics.

  • Pascal

    Developed by Niklaus Wirth, intended for use to encourage good programming practices, using data structuring and structured programming.

  • C

    Designed by Dennis Ritchie. Used to re-implement the UNIX operating system.

  • ML

    Acronym for Metalanguage. Developed by Robin Milner and designed to develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover.

  • ADA

    Built by Jean Ichbiah for U.S. Department of Defense between 1977-1983.
    Named after Ada Lovelace, who was named the first computer programmer.

  • C++

    Designed by Bjarne Stroustrup. Designed toward system programming (operating systems or embedded systems).

  • Visual Basic

    Developed by Microsoft and used for easy-to-create applications.

  • Python

    Developed by Python Software Foundation. Designed to allow programmers to express concept in fewer lines of code.

  • Delphi

    First designed by Borland, and then was sold to Embarcadero Technologies, and used to make programs.

  • Java

    Developed by Oracle. Intended to be used on all platforms without having to be recompiled to another.

  • JavaScript

    Developed by Netscape Communications Corporation and Mozilla Foundation, and is used to let scripts interact with the user and control the webpage.

  • PHP

    Developed by The PHP Group. Designed for web development and used as a general purpose programming language.

  • SQL

    Acronym for Structured Query Language. Developed by ISO/IEC in 1974. Use for database management.