Programming languages timeline

Plankalkul

Jan 31, 1948

Designed for engineering by Konrad Zuse.

Fortran

Jan 30, 1957

Designed by John Backus who was working for IBM. Fortran came from Formula Translating System. Fortran is good for numeric computation and scientific computing.

MATH-MATIC

Jan 31, 1957

Created by Charles Katz in 1957. Was made for Univac 1 and Univac 2 and was made to be better than FORTRAN.

Lisp

Jan 30, 1958

Was created for Mathematical notation for computer programs but quickly became realized how good it was for artificial intelligence programs. Created by John McCarthy.

COBOL

Jan 30, 1959

Designed for the Department of Defense. Designed by Howard Bromerg, Howard Discount, and around four more people.

RPG

Jan 31, 1959

Created by IBM, was designed mainly for business applications.

BASIC

Jan 30, 1964

Begginers All-purpose Symbolic Instuction Code. Was created to allow more people to be able to use computers other than mathematicians and scientists.

LOGO

Jan 30, 1967

Was created as a math world where kids could play with numbers and sentences. Very begginer friendly. Created by wally feuzrig

B

Jan 30, 1969

Created by Bell Labs Curca. Was created by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie.

PASCAL

Jan 31, 1970

Designed by Niklause Wirth. The program was small and efficient for good programming practice.

C

Jan 30, 1972

Created by Dennis Ritchie and was used to reimplemnt the unix operating system.

ML

Jan 31, 1973

Designed by Robin Milner and a group of people at the University of Edinburgh. Designed with eagerevaluation meaning subexpressions are always evaluated.

SQL

Jan 31, 1974

Donald Chamberlin and Raymon F. Boyce created SQL. Designed for managing data within a database.

ADA

Jan 30, 1980

Design to be better than the hundreds of programming languages in the Department of Defense. Was designed by John Ichbiah

C++

Jan 30, 1983

Created b Bjarne Stroustrup, although C was good for businesses it wasn't as good and fast for individual use. So he created C++ to be faster for individual work.

Python

Jan 31, 1991

Guildo Van Rossum designed python. It is a very high quality and general programming language.

Visual Basic

Jan 31, 1991

Created by Microsoft to be easy to learn programming and use.

Javascript

Jan 30, 1995

Designed by Brendan Eich, javascript is used for internet browsers mainly.

Delphi

Jan 30, 1995

Delphi was created by Borland as a rapid application tool for windows.

Java

Jan 30, 1995

Was created by James Gosling, for Oracle Corporation. Was made to be a WORA which is once the program has been compiled it can be read on any system.

PHP

Jan 31, 1995

Designed for web development but is also a general purpose programming language. Designed by Rasmus Ledorf.