Programming Languages Timeline

By jferner
  • Plankalkul

    designed for engineering purposes
  • Fortran

    especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing
  • MATH-MATIC

    Remington Rand
  • Lisp

    the second-oldest high-level programming language in widespread use today
  • COBOL

    Common Business-Oriented Language
  • RPG

    Report Program Generator
  • BASIC

    a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages
  • LOGO

    Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert
  • B

    represents a span of text stylistically different from normal text
  • PASCAL

    Niklaus Wirth
  • C

    Dennis Ritchie
  • ML

    Robin Milner
  • SQL

    Structured Query Language
  • C++

    Bjarne Stroustrup
  • ADA

    Americans with Disabilities Act
  • Python

    Guido van Rossum
  • Visual Basic

    a third-generation event-driven programming language
  • Java

    specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible
  • Javascript

    a high-level, dynamic, untyped, and interpreted programming language
  • PHP

    Hypertext Preprocessor
  • Delphi

    Embarcadero Technologies