The Timeline of Programming Languages | Photo By Markus Spiske

Plankalkul was released in 1948 developed by Konrad Zuse. The purpose of this programing language was to reinvent the concept of a program for the new generation of computing technology. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/586068

Fortran is a programing language developed by John Backus and IBM was and released in 1957. The purpose of this programing language was to help scientists forecast certain events using models. https://fortran-lang.org/
http://www.thocp.net/biographies/backus_john.htm

MATH-MATIC was developed by Remington Rand and released in 1957. The purpose of this project was to provide a programing language for developers on the new released UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II. https://web.archive.org/web/20141226040230/http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Knuth_Don_X4100/PDF_index/k-7-pdf/k-7-u2310-UNIVAC-MATH-MATIC-ARITH-MATIC.pdf

Lisp was released in 1958 by John McCarthy. This language's purpose was to provide a scripting language that would best fit artificial intelligence. https://web.archive.org/web/20050405213907/http://www8.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/html/lisp/histlit1.html

RPG is a programming language developed by IBM and first released in 1959. The purpose of this project was to provide a language for IBM's proprietary hardware and software. RPG stands for Report Program Generator. https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg245402.pdf

COBOL which stands for Common Business-Oriented Language was developed by a group of computer professionals which included Howard Bromberg. The first version of the language was developed in 1960 and continued development for years after. https://www.britannica.com/technology/COBOL
https://books.google.com/books?id=G6a2tSuOoq8C&pg=PA47#v=onepage&q&f=falseb

BASIC was originally developed in 1964 by mathematicians John George Kemeny and Tim Kurtzas at Dartmouth used as a teaching tool for students The word BASIC is an acronym for "Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code." https://www.thoughtco.com/history-basic-programming-language-1991662
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/dartmouth/BASIC_Oct64.pdf

LOGO was released in 1967 by a group from Bolt lead by Wallace Feurzeig. This programing language was quoted as "a tool for learning" and was meant to provide activities to help users learn about the language. LOGO surprisingly is based on Lisp, also discussed in this timeline. https://el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/what_is_logo/history.html

B was originally developed in 1969 by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie as a system implementation language immerging Unix (similar to Linux) operating system. B is not an acronym but it was the predecessor to the C language. https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/history
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html

PASCAL was designed by Niklaus Wirth and was released in 1970. The purpose of this project was to provide an efficient language for structured programming. http://www.pascal-central.com/docs/iso7185.pdf
http://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/

C was originally developed in 1972 by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie as a system implementation language immerging Unix (similar to Linux) operating system. C is not an acronym but it was the forerunner to the B language. https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html
https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/history

ML meaning Meta Language was released in 1973 by Robin Milner and others at the University of Edinburgh. The purpose of this project was to create a language that worked better with expressions while causing less run time errors. http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/gdp/publications/Robin_sci_biog.pdf

C++ was originally developed in 1979 by Bjarne Stroustrup as an expansion of the C language to add new features and capabilities. C++ is not an acronym but it should be noted in certain programming languages, ++ typically means adding 1. https://www.stroustrup.com/hopl2.pdf

SQL developed Relational Software, Inc. (now Oracle) by was commercially available in 1979. The purpose of SQL was to provide a framework for large datasets. The term SQL stands for Structured Query Language. https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14200/intro001.htm

ADA was originally developed in 1980 by Dr. Jean Ichbiah and his team at CII-Honeywell-Bull in France. The main purpose of this language is to provide developers a reliable and efficient modern language for large and long-lived applications such as embedded systems. The name "Ada" while appears to be an acronym was chosen to honor Augusta Ada Lovelace who is regarded as the world's first programmer. https://www.adacore.com/about-ada

Python was released in 1989 by Guido van Rossum. The original purpose of Python was to support the ABC project which would help educated computer users to learn a programing language. Now it is used in several solutions including Artificial Intelligence. https://www.artima.com/intv/python.html
http://python-history.blogspot.com/2009/01/brief-timeline-of-python.html

Visual Basic was released in 1991 by a team at Microsoft after combining QuickBasic and the Ruby shell. The purpose of Visual Basic was to provide developers a language to program Windows programs with. http://johnsmiley.com/visualbasic/vbhistory.htm

PHP was created in 1994 by Rasmus Lerdorf to originally track visits to his online resume hence the acronym "Personal Home Page Tools." https://www.php.net/manual/en/history.php.php

Delphi is a programming language originally released in 1995 and was developed by a team at Embarcadero. The purpose of this software to provide a native code compiler and RAD (Rapid Application Development). https://kolmck.net/history-of-delphi-programming-language/

Javascript is a programming language developed by Microsoft and released in 1995. It was intended on running on the newly founded Netscape browser but later grow into Microsoft software applications. https://web.archive.org/web/20160305202500/http://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/co/2012/02/mco2012020007.pdf

Java was originally released in 1995 by a group of researches led by James Gosling. The purpose of Java was to allow electronic devices made for consumers to communicate with one another after the release of the World Wide Web. https://www.britannica.com/technology/Java-computer-programming-language
https://www.cnet.com/news/java-founder-james-gosling-joins-google/