Programming Languages Timeline

  • Plankalkül

    Plankalkül is a programming language designed for engineering purposes by Konrad Zuse between 1943 and 1945. It was the first high-level (non-von Neumann) programming language to be designed for a computer
  • Fortran

    John Backus and IBM deveoped this language its derived from Formula Translating System.
  • MATH-MATIC

    MATH-MATIC is the marketing name for the AT-3 compiler, an early programming language for the UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II. Intended as an improvement over FORTRAN. Created by a group led by Charles Katz in 1957.
  • Lisp

    The name LISP derives from "LISt Processor". Designed by John McCarthy but developed by Steve Russell, Timothy P. Hart, and Mike Levin.
  • COBOL

    desighned by Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden, Gertrude Tierney but it made its first appearance in 1959.
  • RPG

    It has a long history, having been developed by IBM in 1959 as the Report Program Generator - a tool to replicate punched card processing on the IBM 1401 then updated to RPG II for the IBM System/3 in the late 1960s, and since evolved into an HLL equivalent to COBOL and PL/I.
  • Basic

    BASIC an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz designed the original BASIC language at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire
  • Logo

    Designed and developed by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert. Logo is a multi-paradigm adaptation and dialect of Lisp
  • B

    It is the work of Ken Thompson with Dennis Ritchie. B was derived from BCPL, and its name may be a contraction of BCPL
  • C

    C was originally developed by Dennis Ritchie between 1969 and 1973 at AT&T Bell Labs, and used to re-implement the Unix operating system.
  • PASCAL

    Designed by Niklaus Wirth. Pascal is a historically influential imperative and procedural programming language, designed in 1968–69 and published in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth as a small and efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.
  • ML

    desighned by Robin Milner & others at the University of Edinburgh. ML is a general-purpose functional programming language developed by Robin Milner and others in the early 1970s at the University of Edinburgh, whose syntax is inspired by ISWIM.
  • SQL

    SQL (Structured Query Language) is a special-purpose programming language designed for managing data held in a relational database management system (RDBMS), or for stream processing in a relational data stream management system (RDSMS).Designed by Donald D. Chamberlin
    Raymond F. Boyce developer ISO/IEC
  • Ada

    Ada was named after Ada Lovelace (1815–1852), who is credited as being the very first computer programmer.Ada was originally designed by a team led by Jean Ichbiah of CII Honeywell Bull under a contract to the United States DoD in 1977 to 1983 to surpass the hundreds of programming languages used by the DoD.
  • C++

    Before the initial standardization in 1998, C++ was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Labs since 1979, as an extension of the C language as he wanted an efficient and flexible language similar to C, which also provided high-level features for program organization.
  • Visua Basic

    Visual Basic is a third-generation event-driven programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft for its COM programming model first released in 1991 and declared legacy in 2008. Microsoft intended Visual Basic to be relatively easy to learn and use
  • Python

    Designed by Guido van Rossum deveoped by Python Software Foundation. Python is a widely used general-purpose, high-level programming language. Its design philosophy emphasizes code readability, and its syntax allows programmers to express concepts in fewer lines of code than would be possible in languages such as C++ or Java.
  • PHP

    PHP is a server-side scripting language designed for web development but also used as a general-purpose programming language. Originally created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994
  • Dephi

    Delphi was originally developed by Borland as a rapid application development tool for Windows but in present day Embarcadero Technologies deveopes it.
  • Java

    designed by James Gosling and Sun Microsystems but developed by Oracle Corporation
  • JavaScript

    Designed by Brendan Eich but developed by Netscape Communications Corporation, Mozilla Foundation, Ecma International