Programming Languages Timeline

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  • Plankalkul

    Konrad Zuse
    First high level programming language excluding von Neumman.
  • Fortran - Formula Translating System

    John W. Backus
    Speed programming.
  • Math-Matic

    Charles Katz
    Purpose was to be an improvement on Fortran.
  • Lisp - Locator/Identifier Separation Protocol

    John McCarthy
    First designed as a mathematical notation.
  • COBOL - Common Business-Oriented Language

    CODASYL committe
    Used in business and finance.
  • BASIC - Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

    John George Kemeny
    It was designed to be easy to use.
  • RPG - Report Program Generator

    IBM
    Used to replicate punch cards.
  • LOGO

    Seymour Papert
    Used turtle graphics. Turtle graphics are like a little robot that students and programmers could look at to predict what would happen.
  • B

    Ken Thompson
    Designed for recursive non numeric functions like language.
  • Pascal

    Niklaus Wirth
    Small language that encouraged good programming practices,
  • SQL - structured query language

    IBM
    Used primarily to store data.
  • C

    Dennis Ritchie
    Used as a general language, used for as many purposes as possible.
  • ML - metalanguage

    Robin Milner
    Used to develop proofs.
  • ADA

    Jean Ichbiah - There have been many forms of ada but the first one was used primarily for defensive reasons.
  • Python

    Guido van Rossum
    Meant to be simple and brief.
  • Visual Basic

    Alan Cooper
    Intended to be easy to use and learn.
  • Javascript

    Brendan Eich
    Used as part of web browsers.
  • DELPHI

    Anders Hejlsberg
    Rapid Application development tool
  • Java

    James Gosling
    Built to run anywhere as long as you have java.
  • PHP

    Rasmus Lerdorf
    Can be used and mixed with html code.
  • C++

    Bjarne Stroustrup
    A high level but efficient language.