Programming Timeline

  • Plankalul

    Designed by Konrad Zuse. This program was made for engineering and was the first high level programming language designed for a coputer.
  • Fortran

    Fortran
    Invinted by John Backus as a general purpose and was used for scientific and numeric computing. It is a popular, high performance, programming language.
  • MATH-MATIC

    MATH-MATIC
    Designed by Carles Katz and was an early language for UNIVAC
  • Lisp

    Created by John McCarthy and was made for mathematical notation on computer programs. Stands for LISt Processor
  • COBOL

    Designed by CODASYL and was used for business and finance and different systems, for both companies and government. COBOL stands for Common Business-Oriented Language
  • RPG

    Created by IBM and is used for buisness applications. It replicated punch card processing. RPG stands for Report Program Generator
  • BASIC

    BASIC
    Created by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz. This program allowed non math and science students to use computers. Before this people would have to design there own programs to use a computer. BASIC stand for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
  • LOGO

    LOGO
    Designed by Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon. LOGO is an educational program and is used today for its drawing aspacts.
  • B

    B
    Designed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. Made for machine independent applications
  • C

    Created by Dennis Ritchie and used to implement Unix OS
  • PASCAL

    Designed by Niklaus Wirth and is historically important and uses structed programming
  • ML

    Designed by Robin Milner and was inspited by ISWIM. The program was known for automatically inferring the types of expressions without explicit annotations. ML stands for MetaLanguage
  • SQL

    Created by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce. SQL is a special purpose programming languae and is made to manage data. SQL stands for Strucutred Query Language
  • ADA

    ADA
    Invented by Jean Ichbiah. The language was made of the Department of Defense and was targeted at imporving embedded and realtime systems.
  • C++

    Designed by Bjarne Stoustup. This language has basic programming geatures and low level memory manipulation
  • Python

    Python
    Designed by Guido van Rossum and emphasizes code readablitliy. It can also express concepts in less lines of code.
  • Visual Basic

    Visual Basic
    Created by Microsoft and is made to be easy to learn. This program is derived from the BASIC programming language
  • PHP

    PHP
    Created by Rasmus Lerdorf and served as a side scripting language, made for web deveolopemt. This program can also be used for general purpose programming. PHP stands for Hypertext PreProcessor
  • Delphi

    Created by Borlands and was suppose to allow programmers to have database connectivity
  • Java

    Java
    Made to have few implementation dependencies. Designed by James Gosling and Sun Microsystems. Made for application developers
  • Javascript

    Designed by Brendan Eich. High level and dynamic programming language. Considered to be one of the three essential technologies to the internet today and is supported by most websites