Programming Languages Timeline

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  • Plankalkul

    first high level program built for computer use and engineer development by Konrad Zuse
  • MATH-MATIC

    Developed by Remington Rand. Provided algebraic-style expressions and floating-point arithmetic figures, and arrays rather than record structures.
  • FORTRAN

    A numeric and scientific computation language developed by John Backus
  • lisp

    created by John McCarthy as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs
  • RPG

    Created by IBM for file sorting and listing
  • COBOL (common business oriented language)

    Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden, Gertrude Tierney, designed to be self-documenting and highly readable program language.
  • BASIC (beginners all-purpose symbolic instruction code)

    created by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz to make computers more accessible and simpler.
  • logo

    developed by Daniel Bobrow as an educational programming language.
  • B

    Built for independent applications like language software by Ken Thompson
  • C

    developed by Dennis Ritchie for assembly language and operating systems
  • PASCAL

    A small, efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring created by Niklaus Wirth
  • ml

    developed by Robin Milner as a general-purpose functional program language for less error while performing
  • SQL

    Program created by Donald Chamberlin and consists of a data definition language, data manipulation, and data control. The scope of SQL includes data insert, query, update and delete, schema creation and modification, and data access control.
  • ADA

    Built for the department of defense to supersede programming languages. Developed by Jean Ichbiah
  • C++

    Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup for system programming and large system use
  • JavaScript

    created by Brendan Eich and is now one of the three core technologies of world wide web content production
  • Visual Basic

    Microsoft program created for easy to learn programming and development, used for rapid application developers.
  • Python

    A program that emphasizes code readability, and its syntax allows programmers to express concepts in fewer lines of code than possible created by Guido van Rossum
  • Delphi

    Software development kit for desktop, mobile, web, and console applications developed by Bortland
  • Java

    Created by James Gosling to make application developers work for compatible with more devices.
  • PHP

    A server-side programming language designed for web development but also used as a general-purpose programming language developed by Rasmus Lerdorf