Programming Languages Timeline

By THH

  • Plankalkül

    Developed by Konrad Zuse

  • Fortran

    Developed by John Backus for IBM

  • Lisp

    Developed by ‎John McCarthy

  • RPG

    Developed by IBM

  • BASIC

    Developed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz

  • Logo

    Developed by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon

  • PASCAL

    Developed by Niklaus Wirth

  • B

    Developed at Bell Labs by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie

  • C

    Developed by Dennis Ritchie

  • ML

    Developed by Robin Milner

  • SQL

    Developed by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce

  • ADA

    Developed for the U.S. Department of Defense

  • C++

    Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup

  • COBOL

    Developed by Grace Murray Hopper

  • Python

    Developed by Guido van Rossum

  • Visual Basic

    Developed by Microsoft

  • PHP

    Developed by Rasmus Lerdorf

  • Delphi

    Developed by Borland

  • Java

    Developed by James Gosling

  • Javascript

    Developed at Netscape