Programming Languages Timeline

By JustinScheaffel

  • Plankalkul created

    Plankalkul, meaning Plan Calculus, was designed for engineering purposes by Konrad Zuse.

  • Fortran created

    First high level programming language created at IBM by a small team led by John Backus.

  • MATH-MATIC created

    MATH-MATIC was created by Rand corporation and was derived form A-0.

  • Lisp created

    Lisp is the second oldest high-level programming language in use today. It was created by John McCarthy in 1958

  • COBOL created

    COBOL was created in 1959 by the Conference on Data Systems Languages as one of the first high-level programming languages.

  • RPG created

    RPG (Report Program Generator) was created in 1959 by IBM to replicate the punched card processing on the IBM 1401.

  • BASIC created

    BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) was created by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz intended to be a computer language for generalists to use to unlock the power of the computer in business.

  • LOGO created

    LOGO is an educational programming language designed by Wally Feurzeig, Cynthia Solomon, and Seymour Papert.

  • B created

    B is a programming language developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. The language was mainly dveloped for non-numeric applications such as system programming.

  • PASCAL created

    The PASCAL programming language was named after Blaise Pascal who created the Pascaline. It was created by Niklaus Wirth in 1970.

  • ML created

    ML (Meta Language) is a general-purpose functional programming language created by Robin Milner and the University of Edinburgh. It is derived from Lisp.

  • C created

    C was developed by Dennis Ritchie in 1972 in the purpose of creating a language that was capable of both high level, machine independent programming and would still allow the programmer to control the behavior of bits of information.

  • C++ created

    C++ was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup in 1979 as an extension on the language of C to make it more flexible

  • SQL created

    SQL (Structured English Query Language) was developed by IBM to used Codd's Model.

  • ADA created

    The ADA programming language was designed for large long lived applications in the early 1980's by Jean Ichbiah. the name ADA is not an acronym but was rather chosen to honor Augusta Ada Lovelace.

  • Python created

    Python was created in the late 1980s by Guido van Rossum as a successor to ABC.

  • Visual Basic created

    Visual Basic was created in 1991 by Microsoft.

  • PHP created

    PHP is a server-side scripting language designed by Rasmus Lerdorf.

  • Delphi created

    Delphi programming language was developed by Borland and is the descendant of Turbo Pascal

  • Java created

    java was originally developed by James gosling at Sun Microsystems and was derived from C and C++.

  • Javascript created

    Brendan Eich created JavaScript in 10 days in 1995