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