Computer Programming TimeLine

  • Plankalkul

    Created By: Konrad Zuse
    - it was designed for engineering purposes, and it was meant to be used on a computer.
    - it also aloud routines or subroutines in the program
  • Fortran

    Created By: John Backus& IBM
    - it was a general purpose language that was mainly used for numeric computation and scientific computing.\
    - Formula Translation
  • MATH-MATIC

    Created By: Charles Katz & Grace Hopper
    - It was a compiler programming language used for the UNIVAC I & II
  • Lisp

    Created By: John McCarthy, Steve Russell, Timothy Hart & Mike Levin
    - it was used for practical mathematical notation
    - It means list processing
  • COBOL

    Created By: Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet & William Seldeny
    - It is primarily used in business platforms like companies and government systems.
    - Stands for common business-orientated
  • RPG

    Created By: IBM
    - It is classified as a high level programming language for business that get reports daily on their systems.
    - Stands for Report Program Generator
  • BASIC

    Created By: John Kemeny & Thomas Kurtz
    - This language was meant to allow beginners or everyday people to use computers.
    - Stands For Beginners All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
  • LOGO

    Created By: Wally Feurzig & Seymour Papert
    - It was widely used for turtle graphics to draw line graphics
  • B

    Created By: Ken Thompson & Dennis Ritchie
    - It is used for system software for non-numeric applications
  • PASCAL

    Created By: Nicklaus Wirth
    - it is used to teach students programming
    - Pascal is the last name of a mathematician
  • SQL

    Created By: Donald Chamberlin & Raymond Boyce
    - It is widely used for database management, like for back end web servers.
    - It stands for Structured Query Language
  • C

    Created By: Dennis Ritchie & Bell Labs
    - It is used to efficiently map constructs to machine instructions which is used in operating systems.
    - It is named C because it was the successor to the programming language B
  • ADA

    Created By: Jean Ichbiah
    - It is used to improve the reliability of the language, it detects compile errors so that there are no errors in the program.
    - ADA stands for Ada Lovelace- credited with the first to write a computer program
  • C++

    Created By: Bjarne Stroustrup
    - it is used to make simple prototyping programs.
  • Visual Basic

    Created By: Microsoft
    - It is used for 3rd generation computers, which is easy to learn and use
  • Delphi

    Created By: Embarcadero Technologies
    - It is widely used to develop console, web and mobile applications.
    -Delphi was the beta code name which eventually stuck to it.
  • Javascript

    Created By: Brendan Eichd, Netscape Communications, Mozilla Foundation & Ecma International
    - It is used to make websites and help give the website interesting interaction features.
  • Java

    Created By: James Gosling, Sun Micro-systems & Oracle Corporation
    - It is used as a simple tactic to write once and repeat anywhere
  • PHP

    Created By: Rasmus Lerdorf
    - It used to create web databases and interactions with it.
  • Python

    Created By: Guido Van Rossum
    - It is a high level programming language which can be used to write scripts for computers and applications.
  • ML

    Created By: Robert Miller & more attending the University of Edinburgh
    - It is used to commonly among programmers to check errors and give suggestions on what to type next its is a standardized functional language.
    - it stands for Meta Language