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Plankalkul was developed in 1948 by Konrad Zeus. This programming language was designed to be used for engineering purposes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankalkü
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MATH-MATIC was developed in 1957 by Remington Rand, primarily to give more features/improve upon the FLOW-MATIC programming language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATH-MATIC
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Lisp was developed in 1958 by John McCarthy. It was created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language)
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COBOL was developed in 1959 by CODASYL, ANSI, ISO. It is a common business oriented language designed specifically for business use. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL
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BASIC is a programming language that was developed in 1964 by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz. It is an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC
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LOGO was developed in 1967 by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert. Developed to teach concepts of programming related to Lisp. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language)
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The programming language B, was developed in 1969 by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. The name B, may be a contraction from BCPL. Main purpose was to be used to write programming language on older computers as it was very barebones. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(programming_language)
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Pascal was developed in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth. It was designed as a small efficient language that could encourage good programming practices by using structured programming and data structuring. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_(programming_language)
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C was developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie and Bell Labs. It was designed to encourage cross-platform programming. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language)
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ML or, "MetaLanguage" was developed in 1973 by Robin Milner and others at the University of Edinburgh. The overall purpose of this language was to develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_ML
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SQL was developed in 1974 by Donald D. Chamberlin and Ramond F. Boyce. SQL stands for "Structured Query Language." It was designed for managing data held in a relational database management system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL
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ADA was developed in 1980 and was originally designed by Jean Ichbiah, then later Revised by S. Tucker Taft. ADA is named after Ada Lovelace who is widely regarded as the first programmer. This language was designed for the development of very large software systems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_(programming_language)
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Python was developed in 1991 by Guido Van Rossum. It was designed to emphasize code readability. It’s syntax allows programmers to express concepts in fewer lines of code than possible in language such as C++ or Java. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)
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Visual Basic was developed in 1991 by Microsoft. It is intended to be relatively easy to learn and designed to accommodate a steep learning curve. Programmers can create both simple and complex GUI applications. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic
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JavaScript was developed in 1995 by Brendan Eich. It is most commonly used as a client side scripting language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript
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Java was developed in 1995 by James Gosling. It was designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible. It is intended to let application developers “write once, run anywhere.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_language)
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PHP was developed in 1995 by Rasmus Lerdorf. It originally stood for Personal Home Page but now stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. It is designed primarily for web development but is also used as a general purpose programming language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP
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FORTRAN was developed in 2008 by John Backus and IBM. FORTRAN stands for Formula Translation. It was developed for scientific and engineering applications. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran
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C++ was developed in 2014 by Bjarne Stroustrup. The purpose of this programming language was to further improve upon the C language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B
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Delphi was developed in 2016 and was originally developed by Borland to be the successor of Turbo Pascal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi_(programming_language)
