1.2 Timeline Assignment

By NinaNoble

  • Plankalkul

    Plankalkul was developed by Konrad Zuse. It was developed to simplify the basic machine code.

  • FORTRAN

    FORTRAN, or FORmula TRANslation, was developed by John Backus. It was developed to allow math formulas to be easily translated into code.

  • MATH-MATIC

    MATH-MATIC, or the Algebraic Translator 3, was developed by Charles Katz and Grace Hopper. It was developed to improve on FORTRAN and to be the first English-language data processing compiler.

  • Lisp

    Lisp, or list processing, was developed by John McCarthy. It was developed to explore the theoretical foundations of the Turing-complete algorithm language.

  • COBOL

    COBOL, or Common Business Oriented Language, was developed by Grace Hopper. It was designed for higher-level programming in business applications.

  • RPG

    RPG, or Report Program Generator, was developed by IBM. It was developed as an alternative for the punch card processing system.

  • BASIC

    BASIC, or Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, was developed by John George Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz. It was developed as a tool for students to write simpler computer programs.

  • Logo

    Logo was developed by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon. It was developed to teach programming concepts related to Lisp.

  • B

    B was developed by Dennis M. Ritchie and Ken Thompson. It was developed for non-numeric applications like system programming.

  • Pascal

    Pascal was developed by Niklaus Wirth. It was developed to influence good programming practices using structured programming.

  • C

    C was developed by Dennis Ritchie. It was developed to overcome the issues found in previous programs and to be used in the UNIX operating system.

  • ML

    ML, or Meta Language, was developed by Robin Milner and his colleagues. It was developed to be a modular and functional programming language.

  • SQL

    SQL, or Structured Query Language, was developed by Raymond Boyce and Donald Chamberlin. It was developed to communicate between databases.

  • C++

    C++ was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup. It was developed as an extension of the C language to make the programming experience easier and more pleasant for the programmer.

  • ADA

    ADA was developed by Jean Ichbiah and S. Tucker Taft. It was developed for long-lived applications that required reliability and efficiency.

  • Python

    Python was developed by Guido van Rossum. It was developed to increase the ability to easily read the program and uses a notable amount of whitespace.

  • Java

    Java was developed by James Gosling. It was developed in an effort to create a language that allowed consumer electronics to communicate with one another.

  • Visual Basic

    Visual Basic was developed by Alan Cooper. It was developed to make it easier to write programs for Windows computer operating systems.

  • PHP

    PHP, or Personal Home Page, was developed by Rasmus Lerdorf. It was developed to for Static websites, Dynamic websites, or Web applications.

  • Delphi

    Delphi was developed by Anders Hejlsberg. It was developed for various applications including database solutions and mobile applications.

  • JavaScript

    JavaScript was developed by Brendan Eich. It was developed so that the first web browser, Netscape, would have a specific programming language.