Programming Languages Timeline

By SiJames
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    Plankalkul

    Used for engineering purposes. It was the first high level programming language for a computer. Created by - Konrad Zuse
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    COBOL

    Popular for business applications to run on large computers, also created part of the US Defense Department to create portable programming language. Created by - Howard Bromberg
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    Fortran

    Used for scientific applications that requires math. Also uses numeric computation and scientific computing. Created by -
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    MATH-MATIC

    MATH-MATIC is the name for the Algebraic Translator 3 programming language for the UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II. Created by - Charles Katz
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    BASIC

    Buisiness, programming, macro. Microsoft Visual Basic Created by- John G.Kemeny and Thomas E.Kurtz
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    Lisp

    Lisp is used for artificial intelligence, it was originally created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs. Created by - John McCarthy
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    RPG

    Short for Report Program Generator. Created by IBM, used for developing business applications, especially generating reports from data.
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    LOGO

    Logo is an educational programming language and was used for it's turtle graphics. Created by - Wally Feurzeig
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    B

    For recursive, non-numeric, system and language software.
    Created by - Ken Thompson and Dennis Richie
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    Ada

    For US Defense Department, general purpose language from business to rocket launching systems.
    Created by - Augusta Ada Byron
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    C

    Used for personal computer programmers because it was small requires less memory than other languages. Created by - Dennis Richtie
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    Pascal

    It's known for it's structured programming and data structuring. It was named in honor of an French named in honor of the French mathematician, philosopher Blaise Pascal. Created by - Niklaus Wirth
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    ML

    ML is the Meta language came from the roots of lisps. It's known for it's polymorphic Hindley–Milner type system. Created by - Robin Miller
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    SQL

    SQL stands for structured query language. SQL has been the favorite query language for database management systems running on minicomputers and mainframes. Created by IBM
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    C++

    Used for graphical applications, virtual functions, operator overloading, and improved type checking. Created by - Bjarne Strustrup.
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    Visual Basic

    Visual Basic was developed by Microsoft as one of the first products to provide a graphical programming environment and a paint metaphor for developing user interfaces.
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    Java

    Java language was designed for handheld devices and set-top boxes, was ran by Java virtual machine. Created by - The Green Team
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    Python

    Python is dynamically typed and garbage-collected. It supports programming paradigms, including procedural. Created by - Guido van Rossum
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    PHP

    Used to open source, server-side, HTML embedded scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages. Created by - Rasmus Lerdorf
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    Delphi

    High level language supporting object-oriented design, used to develop applications. Created by - Anders Hejlsberg
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    Javascript

    JavaScript is a scripting language first developed by Netscape to enable Web authors to design interactive sites.