Programming Languages Timeline

COBOL, Common Business Oriented Language, was designed in 1959 by Dr. Grace Hopper who lead the team that made it. COBOL is mostly used in business, governments, administrative systems, etc. COBOL is very wordy but makes it more easy to follow direction. It is used to write code for software. It is second oldest high level programming language.

BASIC stands for Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. It was developed by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz in the mid 1960s. It was made for introducing beginners to computer programming. They made BASIC in a way that it would work on any computer.

B is a computer programming language was made by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson. It was created in the Bell Labs in the late 1960s and 1970s. B is a file format used for BASIC language.

C is mostly used for microcontrollers, a self-contained system, and operating systems. It is used in a lot of hardware programming. C was made by Dennis Ritchie. The language was developed at the Bell Laboratories in 1972. It was made very flexible and resourceful.

Like many other languages C++ was made in the Bell Laboratories in the early 1980s. C++ was created by Bjarne Stroustrup. It was made as an extension of C because Bjarne wanted it to have the same efficiency and flexibility as C. C++ is a OOP, Object-Oriented Programming, language. C++ was originally named C with Classes but was changed to C++ in 1983.

ADA was named after Augusta Ada King. She was the assistant to the inventor Charles Babbage. ADA was developed in the early 1980s. It writes logical codes and is unique between languages. Its is a high-leveled computer programming language. ADA is such a reliable that many development teams use it for critical software. It recognizes and remove bugs quickly.