Programming Languages Timeline

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  • Plankalkul

    Konrad Zuse was the creator of Python, stands for Plan Calculus, Python was developed with the goal of creating the theoretical preconditions.
  • Math-Matic

    Grace Hopper was the creator. marketing name for the AT-3 (Algebraic Translator 3).
  • Fortran

    Developer- John Backus, world's first high-level programming language, Purpose-numeric computation and scientific computing
  • Lisp

    developer- John McCarthy,purpose- artificial intelligence
  • COBOL

    Developed in May 28 & 29 1959, Developed by Conference on Data Systems Languages (CODASYL) (Based on previous work by Grace Hopper), reads like regular English and is often used for business and administrative purposes, means Common Business Oriented Language
  • ML

    Meta Language Is what ML stands for. It is general-purpose functional programming language. John Backus and Peter Naur were the creators.
  • Basic

    Invented by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz, Used to run programs on the school’s General Electric Computer system, Developed at 4am on May 1, 1964, Basic stands for Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
  • RPG

    IBM (Raymond Boyce and Donald Chamberlin) was the creator of RPG, Report Program Generator is what RPG stands for, generating informative large-scale reports from mainframe database is the purpose of RPG.
  • LOGO

    Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomo., educational programming language,
  • B

    Published in 1969, Developed by Ken Thompson, The main purpose is system development, not numeric Computations. B does not stand for anything
  • Pascal

    Named after Blaise Pascal,but introduced by Niklaus Wirth. Was created as a teaching tool.
  • C

    • Developed in 1972, used to Developed the UNIX operating system at bell labs, developed by Dennis M. Ritchie
  • C++

    Developed in 1972, used to Developed the UNIX operating system at bell labs, developed by Dennis M. Ritchie
  • ADA

    May 1979, Designed by Jean Ichbiah, Used for critical software. ADA does not stand for anything
  • Java

    purpose- developers use to create applications on your computer, developer- James Gosling,
  • Python

    Guido Van Rossum is the creator of Python. Pythong was developed to fix problems in the ABC language
  • PHP

    Rasmus Lerdorf is the creator. PHP was developed to replace a set Perl scripts used to maintain his personal home page
  • Java Script

    Maker- Brendan Eich, Purpose- made for Netscape Navigator
  • Delphi

    Rapid application, developer- Larry Tesler, purpose- forecasting process framework, Stands for -Discriminating Electrons by Laser Photon Ionization