Programming Languages Timeline

By Althebear2

  • Plankalkül

    Plankalkül was made by Konrad Zuse in 1948 for engineering. It means formal system for planning.

  • Fortran

    Fortran was made in 1956 by John Backus for math and scientific computing. The name stands for Formula Translating

  • MATH-MATIC

    MATH-MATIC was for the UNIVAC I and 2 which was made by Charles Katz.

  • Lisp

    Lisp was made by John McCarthy in 1958 to be used for mathematical notation. The name comes from list processor

  • Cobal

    Made by Jean Sammet, Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Gertrude Tierney, Vernon Reeves, William Selden for bussiness to use. cobol stands for common business-oriented language

  • RPG

    RPG was made by IBM for business applications. It's name means Report Program Generator

  • BASIC

    BASIC Stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code which was made by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. to be simple to learn.

  • LOGO

    Logo is an educational programming language made by Seymour Papert and Wally Feurzeig. The name comes from the latin word thought.

  • B

    B was made by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie to do non machine dependent tasks.

  • C

    C was made by Dennis Ritchie to make system software

  • Pascal

    Made by niklaus Wirth in 1970 to be small and efficient. Named after Blaise Pascal.

  • ML

    made by Robin Milner to develop proof tactics in a theorem. ML means metalanguage

  • SQL

    SQL was made by Donald Chamberlin in 1974 made to managing data. The name means Structured Qeury Language

  • C++

    C++ was made by Bjarne Stroustrup in 1979 and is used for desktops and servers. C++ means C+1

  • Ada

    made by Tucker Taft & Jean Ichbiah Named after the first programmer and used for code stability

  • Python

    Python was made by Guido van Rossum and is multi function. the names reason is unknown.

  • Delphi

    Made by Borland in 1995 delphi's main use was a quick Windows application development tool. The name comes from the oracal delphi

  • Java

    Made by James Gosling in 1995 java is multi function and made to have few implementation dependencies. Named after the coffee.

  • javascript

    made by Brendan Eich in 1995 javascript is used for the WWW and it's name came from java

  • PHP

    PHP was made by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995 for server side scripting and for web development

  • Visual Basic

    Visual Basic was made by Microsoft in 1998 to make applications quickly. The name comes from it's OOP and BASIC parts