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Programming Languages Timeline

  • Plankalkul

    Developed by a German named Konrad Zuse. Was the world first complete high-level commerical programming language.
  • Fortran

    Developed by John Backus assisted by IBM. Purpose was to be the first high level programming language
  • MATH-MATIC

    Developed by Charles Katz. Purpose was to create a programming language for the UNIVAC
  • Lisp

    Developed by John McCarthy. The name LISP derives from "LISt Processing". Purpose a practical mathematical notation for computer programs.
  • COBOL

    Developed by a team of people (William Selden, Gertrude Tierney, Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet) led by Grace Hopper. Its name is an acronym for COmmon Business-Oriented Language. Made to be used by the common business man.
  • RPG

    Developed by IBM. Was made for punch card machines. RPG stands for "Report Program Generator"
  • BASIC

    Developed by John Kemeny and Tom Kurtzas. BASIC stands for 'Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code' It was and still is used as a teaching tool.
  • Visual Basic

    Developed by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz. First release by microsoft was in 1991. 3rd generation of even-driven programming language.
  • LOGO

    Developed by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert. Purpose was for educational use
  • B

    Devloped by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie
  • ML

    Developed by Robin Milner. ML stands for metalanguage. Was used in the Hindley–Milner type inference algorithm.
  • PASCAL

    Developed by Niklaus Wirth. Purpose was to be used as an instructional tool to teach structual programming,
  • SQL

    Developed by Donald D Chamberlin through IBM. Purpose was for managing data bases.
  • C

    Developed by Dennis Ritchie. Was created to be a High Level and allow advanced users to control the bits of data.
  • C++

    It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises both high-level and low-level language features. Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup. Purpose was to make an efficient programming language for commerical use. As like to make Software.
  • ADA

    ADA
    Named after Ada Lovelace. Made for the US Dep. of Defense to supercede other programming languages. Developed by Jean Ichbiah.
  • Java

    Developed by the "Green Team" led by James Gosling. Purpose was to revelutionize the world by making interactiable games.
  • Python

    Developed by Guido van Rossum. Purpose was to hadle syntax.
  • PHP

    Developed by Rasmus Lerdorf. PHP stands for "Personal Home Page". Purpose was to translate HTML
  • Delphi

    Developed by Anders. purpose was to make programming easier
  • Javascript

    Developed by Brendan Eich. Purpose was to make Web Pages interactiable.