Programming Languages Timeline

  • Plankalkul

    a programming language designed for engineering purposes
  • Fortran

    Originally developed by IBM in the 1950s for scientific and engineering applications, Fortran came to dominate this area of programming early on and has been in continuous use for over half a century in computationally intensive areas such as numerical weather prediction, finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics, computational physics and computational chemistry. It is a popular language for high-performance computing and is used for programs that benchmark and rank the world
  • Math-Matic

    Intended as an improvement over FORTRAN.
  • Lisp

    Lisp was originally created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs, influenced by the notation of Alonzo Church's lambda calculus.
  • COBOL

    an acronym for common business-oriented language) is a compiled English-like computer programming language designed for business use.
  • RPG

    a high-level programming language (HLL) for business applications. RPG is an IBM proprietary programming language
  • basic

    In 1964, John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz designed the original BASIC language at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. They wanted to enable students in fields other than science and mathematics to use computers. At the time, nearly all use of computers required writing custom software, which was something only scientists and mathematicians tended to learn. BASIC (an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code)
  • LOGO

    Today the language is remembered mainly for its use of "turtle graphics" , in which commands for movement and drawing produced line graphics either on screen or with a small robot called a "turtle".
  • Pascal

    a small and efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.
  • B

    B was developed by Bell Labs circa 1969. Its main purpose was designed for recursive, non-numeric, machine independent applications, such as system and language software.B was derived from BCPL, and its name may be a contraction of BCPL.
  • ML

    it was conceived to develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover (whose language, pplambda, a combination of the first-order predicate calculus and the simply typed polymorphic lambda calculus, had ML as its metalanguage).
  • SQL

    Originally based upon relational algebra and tuple relational calculus, SQL consists of a data definition language, data manipulation language, and a data control language. The scope of SQL includes data insert, query, update and delete, schema creation and modification, and data access control
  • C

    C was originally developed by Dennis Ritchie between 1969 and 1973 at AT&T Bell Labs,[5] and used to re-implement the Unix operating system.
  • C++

    It was designed with a bias toward system programming and embedded, resource-constrained and large systems, with performance, efficiency and flexibility of use as its design highlights. C++ was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup.
  • ADA

    Dr. Jean Ichbiah developed the language. Ada is seeing significant usage worldwide in high-integrity / safety-critical / high-security domains including commercial and military aircraft avionics, air traffic control, railroad systems, and medical devices.
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  • Python

    Its design philosophy emphasizes code readability, and its syntax allows programmers to express concepts in fewer lines of code than would be possible in languages such as C++ or Java.The language provides constructs intended to enable clear programs on both a small and large scale.
  • PHP

    a server-side scripting language designed for web development but also used as a general-purpose programming language.
  • Java

    Java is a general-purpose computer programming language that is concurrent, class-based, object-oriented,[13] and specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible
  • Javascript

    it is one of the three essential technologies of World Wide Web content production
  • Delphi

    Delphi was originally developed by Borland as a rapid application development tool for Windows, and as the successor of Borland Pascal.
  • Visual Basic

    Visual Basic was designed to accommodate a steep learning curve. Programmers can create both simple and complex GUI applications. Programming in VB is a combination of visually arranging components or controls on a form, specifying attributes and actions for those components, and writing additional lines of code for more functionality.