Programming Languages Timeline

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    Plankalkul

    Plankalkül (German pronunciation: [ˈplaːnkalkyːl], "Plan Calculus") is a programming language designed for engineering purposes by Konrad Zuse between 1942 and 1945. It was the first high-level (non-von Neumann) programming language to be designed for a computer.
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    CODASYL

    Short for Conference on Data Systems Languages, and pronounced code-a-sill, an organization founded in 1957 by the U.S. Department of Defense. Its mission was to develop computer programming languages.
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    MATH-MATIC

    MATH-MATIC is the marketing name for the AT-3 (Algebraic Translator 3) compiler, an early programming language for the UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II.
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    Lisp

    Acronym for list processor, a high-level programming language especially popular for artificial intelligence applications.
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    PASCAL

    Pronounced pass-kal. A high-level programming language developed by Niklaus Wirth in the late 1960s. The language is named after Blaise Pascal, a seventeenth-century French mathematician who constructed one of the first mechanical adding machines
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    RPG

    An interpreted, object-oriented programming language developed by Guido van Rossum. The name comes from one of van Rossum's favorite television shows, Monty Python's Flying Circus. Python is very portable since Python interpreters are available for most operating system platforms.
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    BASIC

    Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
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    FORTRAN

    Acronym for formula translator, FORTRAN is the oldest high-level programming language. Designed by John Backus for IBM in the late 1950s, it is still popular today, particularly for scientific applications that require extensive mathematical computations.
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    LOGO

    Logo is an educational programming language, designed in 1967 by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon.[1] "Logo" is not an acronym. It was derived from the Greek logos meaning word or "thought" by Feurzeig,[2] to distinguish itself from other programming languages that were primarily numbers, not graphics or logic, oriented.
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    B

    B is a programming language made by Bell Labs.
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    C

    A high-level programming language developed by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs in the mid 1970s.
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    ML

    ML ('Meta Language') is a general-purpose functional programming language.
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    SQL

    SQL (/ˌɛs.kjuːˈɛl/ (About this sound listen) ESS-kew-EL[4] or /ˈsiːkwəl/ (About this sound listen) SEE-kwəl,[5] Structured Query Language[6][7][8][9]) is a domain-specific language used in programming and designed for managing data held in a relational database management system (RDBMS), or for stream processing in a relational data stream management system (RDSMS)
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    C++

    C++ is a high-level programming language developed by Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Labs. C++ adds object-oriented features to its predecessor, C. C++ is one of the most popular programming language for graphical applications, such as those that run in Windows and Macintosh environments.
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    ADA

    Ada is a structured, and object-oriented computer programming language, extended from Pascal and other languages.
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    Visual Basic

    A programming language and environment developed by Microsoft.
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    Java

    A high-level programming language that is a commonly used foundation for developing and delivering content on the Web.
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    Javascript

    A scripting language developed by Netscape to enable Web authors to design interactive sites.
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    Python

    An interpreted, object-oriented programming language developed by Guido van Rossum. The name comes from one of van Rossum's favorite television shows, Monty Python's Flying Circus. Python is very portable since Python interpreters are available for most operating system platforms.
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    PHP

    An open source, server-side, HTML embedded scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages.
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    Delphi

    A Rapid Application Development (RAD) system developed by Borland International, Inc. Delphi is similar to Visual Basic from Microsoft, but whereas Visual Basic is based on the BASIC programming language, Delphi is based on Pascal.