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Plankalkul Programming Language
Plankalkul programming language was the worlds first complete high level language created in 1948 by Konrad Zuse. A function of this language was that it had the possibility for defining sub-programs.
Citation:“History of Computers and Computing, Birth of the modern computer, Software history, Konrad Zuse's Plankalkül.” History of Computers and Computing, Birth of the modern computer, Software history, Konrad Zuse's Plankalkül. -
FORTRAN Programming Language
The FORTRAN programming language was developed by a team of programmers at IBM led by John Backus and was first published in 1957. The acronym stands for FORmula TRANslation, and was created to allow easy translation of math formulas into code.
Citation: “The FORTRAN Programming Language.” The FORTRAN Programming Language, groups.engin.umd.umich.edu/CIS/course.des/cis400/fortran/fortran.html. Accessed 1 Sept. 2017. -
MATH-MATIC Programming Language
The MATH-MATIC Programming Language was created by Grace Hopper as a compiler for the UNIVAC I computer in 1957. It was an updated version of the earlier A-0 compiler. It stands for Mathematical.
Citation: “1957 | Timeline of Computer History.” Computer History Museum, www.computerhistory.org/timeline/1957/#169ebbe2ad45559efbc6eb35720e01a4. Accessed 1 Sept. 2017. -
Lisp Programming Language
The lisp programming language was created in 1958 by John McCarthy at MIT. It was created as part of the artificial intelligence project to process lists of data. The name comes from the phrase LISt Processor.
Citation: “A Short History of the Lisp Programming Language.” Beanz, 25 Feb. 2015, www.kidscodecs.com/lisp/. Accessed 1 Sept. 2017. -
RPG Programming Language
The RPG programming language is a high-level programming language created for business applications. It stands for Report Program Generator, and was created by IBM. It was originally meant to be a tool to replicate punched card processing on the IBM 1401.
Citation: Revolvy, LLC. “"RPG programming language" on Revolvy.Com.” Revolvy, www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=RPG programming language&item_type=topic. Accessed 1 Sept. 2017. -
COBOL Programming Language
The COBOL programming language was created by a group of computer professionals who were known as the Conference on Data Systems Languages. It was created to automate business. COBOL stands for Common Business Oriented Language.
Citation: “The COBOL Programming Language.” The COBOL Programming Language, groups.engin.umd.umich.edu/CIS/course.des/cis400/cobol/cobol.html. Accessed 1 Sept. 2017. -
BASIC Programming Language
BASIC stands for Beginner's All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, and it was created at Darthmouth college in 1963. The creators were John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtzas, who made it for generalists to use with computers when working for business and other academia. -
LOGO Programming Language
The LOGO programming language was created as a dialect of the lisp programming language. It was made by a team led by Seymour Papert at MIT in 1967. It was designed as a tool for learning.
Citation: “Logo History.” Logo History, el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/what_is_logo/history.html. Accessed 1 Sept. 2017. -
B Programming Language
The B programming language was developed at the Bell Lab in 1969. It was replaced with the C language. B was created for recursive, non numeric applications. It was the work of Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritche.
Citation: “B (Programming Language).” IT History Society, 20 Aug. 2017, www.ithistory.org/resource/b-programming-language. Accessed 31 Aug. 2017. -
SQL Programming Language
SQL stands for Structured Query Language, and was designed for taking information from databases. It was created by IBM's Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce in the early 1970s.
Citation: The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica. “SQL.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, inc., 11 Apr. 2016, www.britannica.com/technology/SQL. Accessed 1 Sept. 2017. -
Pascal Programming Language
The Pascal programming language was made in 1971 by Niklaus Wirth, a member of the International Federation of Information Processing Working Group. Its purpose was to provide features that were lacking in other programming languages of the time. It was named after the mathematician Blaise Pascal.
Citation: “The Pascal Language Page.” The Pascal Programming Language, groups.engin.umd.umich.edu/CIS/course.des/cis400/pascal/pascal.html. Accessed 1 Sept. 2017. -
C Programming Language
The C programming language was designed at Bell Laboratories by Dennis Ritche, with the purpose of creating a language that was capable of high level machine independent programming and still allow the programmer to control the behavior of individual bits of information.
Citation: “The C Programming Language.” The C Programming Language, groups.engin.umd.umich.edu/CIS/course.des/cis400/c/c.html. Accessed 1 Sept. 2017. -
ML Programming Language
The ML programming language is a member of the general purpose programming languages family, and was created for research purposes. It was made in 1972 by Robin Milner at the University of Edinburgh. ML stands for Meta Language.
Citation: “WhoIsHostingThis.” ML Introduction and Resources, 20 Dec. 2016, www.whoishostingthis.com/resources/ml/. Accessed 1 Sept. 2017. -
ADA Programming Language
The ADA programming language was created in the early 1980's, and was developed by a team led by Dr. Jean Ichbiah. It was designed for large, long-lived applications and embedded systems where reliability and efficiency are essential. The acronym was created in honor of Augusta Ada Lovelace, as she is regarded as the worlds first programmer.
Citation: “AdaCore.” The Ada Programming Language | About Ada | Ada Answers | AdaCore, www.adacore.com/adaanswers/about/ada. Accessed 31 Aug. 2017. -
C++ Programming Language
The C++ programming language was based on the C programming language, and was made with the purpose to write software for hardware. It was created in the early 1980's by Bjarne Stroustrup. The reason it is called C++ is because it is very similar to the C language, but improved.
Citation: Khan, Jawad. “Brief History of C .” Byte-Notes | Computer Science learning platform, 11 Aug. 2013, www.byte-notes.com/brief-history-c. Accessed 1 Sept. 2017. -
Java Programming Language
The Java programming language was created in 1991 and began as a project called "Oak" by James Gosling. It was made to be similar to the C and C++ programming language, but simpler.
Citation: “History of Java programming language.” History of Java programming language, www.freejavaguide.com/history.html. Accessed 1 Sept. 2017. -
Visual Basic Programming Language
The Visual Basic programming language was created for a form building application. VB 1.0 was introduced in 1991, and was based on the BASIC language. Microsoft asked Alan Cooper and his company, Tripod, to make a program. They created something called Ruby, which Microsoft then combined with BASIC to make Visual Basic.
Citation: Mabbutt, Dan. “Visual Basic with Definitions, History, and Background.” ThoughtCo, www.thoughtco.com/about-vib-and-about-this-site-3424549. Accessed 1 Sept. 2017. -
Python Programming Language
The programming language Python was created in 1991 by Guido Van Rossum, and came from the ABC language. Python was made to correct some of ABC's problems and keep many of the features. It got its name from a BBC comedy series called "Monty Python's Flying Circus."
Citation: “The Python Programming Language.” The Python Programming Language, groups.engin.umd.umich.edu/CIS/course.des/cis400/python/python.html. Accessed 1 Sept. 2017. -
PHP Programming Language
The PHP programming language was created in 1994 by Rasmus Lerdorf. PHP stands for personal home page tools, and it was made for database interaction and the ability to develop simple web applications.
Citation: “History of PHP - Manual.” Php, php.net/manual/en/history.php.php. Accessed 1 Sept. 2017. -
Javascript Programming Language
Javascript was designed by Netscape Navigators in 1995. The project was led by Brendan Eich, and was designed to make Java applets more accessible to non-Java programmers.
Citation: Champeon, Steve. “JavaScript: How Did We Get Here?” O'Reilly Media - Technology and business training, knowledge, and insight, delivered by experts and innovators, 6 Apr. 2001, archive.oreilly.com/pub/a/javascript/2001/04/06/js_history.html. Accessed 1 Sept. 2017. -
Delphi Programming Language
The Delphi programming language was developed by Borderland, and its name was created because of the programs' ability to communicate with the Oracle database. Its purpose was for programmers to connect to other databases. It was created in 1995.
Citation: “History of Delphi Programming Language.” KOL and MCK, 9 Jan. 2017, kolmck.net/history-delphi-programming-language/. Accessed 1 Sept. 2017.