Programming Languages Timeline

By Collin Malpass

  • Plankalkul

    Developed in 1948
    Developed by Konrad zuse
    For engineering purposes
    Stands for Formal system

  • Fortran

    Developed in 1957
    Developed by a team of programmers at IBM
    Designed for easy translation of math formulas into code
    stand for FORmula TRANslation

  • MATH-MATIC

    Developed in 1957
    Developed by Charles Katz
    intended as an improvement over FORTRAN.

  • Lisp

    Developed in 1958
    Developed by John McCarthy
    Used as a General purpose language
    Stands for list processing

  • COBOL

    Developed in 1959
    Developed by a group of computer professionals called the Conference on Data Systems Languages
    Designed for business use
    Stands for Common Business Oriented Language

  • RPG

    Developed in 1959
    Developed by IBM
    Provides a modern programming environment
    Stands for Report Program Generator

  • BASIC

    Developed in 1964
    Designed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz
    Designed as a interactive mainframe time sharing language
    BASIC stands for Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

  • LOGO

    Developed in 1967
    Developed by Wally Feurzeig
    Educational programming language, commands for movement and drawing produced line graphics either onscreen or with a robot called turtle.

  • B

    Developed in 1969
    Developed by Ken Thompson with Dennis Ritchie.
    Designed for recursive, non numeric, machine independent applications, such as system and language software.
    Derived from BCPL.

  • ML

    Developed in 1970
    Developed by Robin Milner
    general-purpose, modular, functional programming language with compile-time type checking and type inference.
    Stands for Meta Language

  • PASCAL

    Developed in 1970
    Developed by Niklaus Wirth
    Language that is used to teach fundemental concepts, but was used for games.

  • C

    Developed in 1972
    Developed by Dennis Ritchie
    Purpose is to develop firmware and portable applications. Originally intended for writing systems.

  • SQL

    Developed in 1974
    Developed by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F Boyce
    Managing data held in RDBMS
    Stands for Structural Query Language

  • ADA

    Developed in May 1979
    Designed by Jean Ichbiah
    The purpose of ADA is to improve code safety and maintain ability by using the computer to find errors and run time errors
    Named after Ada Lovelace

  • C++

    Developed in 1979
    Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup
    Developed as a extension of the C language
    C++ short for the word standard

  • Python

    Developed in 1991
    Developed by software foundation
    used for Scripting

  • Visual Basic

    Developed in 1991
    Developed by Microsoft
    Intended to be relatively easy to learn

  • Delphi

    Developed in 1995
    Developed by Anders Hejlsberg
    Is a native code compiler

  • Java

    Developed in 1995
    Developed by James Gosling
    Developed to create complete applications that run on a single computer.

  • Javascript

    Developed in 1995
    Developed by Brendan Eich
    Used in web pages to read,interpret, and execute

  • PHP

    Developed in 1995
    Developed by Rasmus Lerdorf
    Scripting language