1.2 timeline

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  • Plankakul

    Plankakul
    Designed for engineering purposes Designed by Konrad Zuse

  • Fortran

    Fortran
    Designed to allow easy translations of math formula into code Developed by an IBM team led by John Backus Stands for FORmula TRANslation

  • Math-matic

    Math-matic
    Intended to be an improvement over Fortran Developed by Charles Katz

  • Lisp

    Lisp
    Originally created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs Made by Steve Russell, Timothy P. Hart, and Mike Levin

  • COBOL

    COBOL
    Stands for common business orientated language Designed for business use Designed by: Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden, Gertrude Tierney

  • RPG

    RPG
    Designed for business applications Designed by IBM

  • BASIC

    BASIC
    Stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code Created to be an easy to use programming language. "John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz designed the original BASIC language at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire"*

  • LOGO

    LOGO
    Used to teach kids coding with a turtle drawing program Made Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert

  • B

    B
    Used for non numeric applications. Developed at bell labs by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie.

  • PASCAL

    PASCAL
    Created to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring Designed by Niklaus Wirth

  • C

    C
    Used for Operating Systems
    Language Compilers
    Assemblers
    Text Editors
    Print Spoolers
    Network Drivers
    Modern Programs
    Data Bases
    Language Interpreters
    Utilities Developed at bell labs by Dennis Ritchie.

  • ML

    ML
    Developed to proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover Designed by Robin Milner & others at the University of Edinburgh

  • SQL

    SQL
    designed for managing data held in a relational database management system Designed by Donald D. Chamberlin
    Raymond F. Boyce Structured Query Language

  • ADA

    ADA
    Ada is a general purpose language that is used from business applications to rocket programming. Designed by CII Honeywell Bull, led by Jean Ichbiah.

  • C++

    C++
    Purpose to be an extension of the c language. Made by Bjarne Stroustrup

  • Visual Basic

    Visual Basic
    Multipurpose Developed by Microsoft

  • Python

    Python
    Multipurpose Designed by Guido Van Rossum

  • PHP

    PHP
    Designed for web development, used as a general purpose programming language Designed by Rasmus Lerdorf

  • Delphi

    Delphi
    Based off the Pascal language, intended to be an easy to use language Developed by Borland

  • Java

    Java
    Designed for use in the distributed environment of the Internet Designed by James Gosling

  • Javascript

    Javascript
    Multi purpose, used for web based and non web based environments Designed by Brendan Eich