1.2 Timeline Assignment

  • Plankalkül

    Made by Konrad Zuse; It is used to represent geometric structures.
  • Fortran

    Made by John Backus; used for scientific work and engineering
  • MATH-MATIC

    Made by Charles Katz; It is used for business and mathematics.
  • Lisp

    Made by James McCarthy; It is used for any type of application, but is mostly used in Artificial Intelligence
  • COBOL

    Made by Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden, Gertrude Tierney and Mary K. Hawes; used in finance, business and administrative systems for companies and governments. It's acronym is Common Business-Oriented Language.
  • RPG

    Made by IBM; used as a report builder. It stands for Report Program Generator.
  • BASIC

    Made by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz; It was used to make programs but is not used to teach fundamental coding. It stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Structure Code.
  • LOGO

    Made by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon; It is used to control devices. It stands for Logic Oriented Graphic Oriented.
  • B

    Made by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie; made for non numeric applications
  • SQL

    Made by Raymond Boyce and Donald Chamberlin; it is used to connect to a database. It stands for Structured Query Language
  • ML

    Made by Robin Milner; It is a general purpose coding language. It stands for Meta-Language
  • PASCAL

    Made by Niklaus Wirth; It is used to make reliable and proficient programs. It stands for Programme d'Aide aux Sciences et aux Langues, which in French means Assistance Program for Science and Languages.
  • C

    Made by Dennis Ritchie; It is highly portable and used for scripting system applications
  • ADA

    Made by Jean Ichbiah and S. Tucker Taft. It's general prupose, used for military programming to worker payroll.
  • C++

    Made by Bjarne Stroustrup; allows procedural programming for intensive functions of CPU and provides control over hardware
  • Python

    Made by Guido van Rossum; used for making web applications.
  • Visual Basic

    Made by Alan Cooper; it is used for making Windows applications and to interface data systems.
  • PHP

    Made by Rasmus Lerdorf; It is used to make static or dynamic websites, or web applications. It stands for Personal Home Page
  • Delphi

    Made by Anders Hejlsberg; used to develop many things, from database solutions to mobile applications
  • Java

    Made by James Gosling; it is used to distribute things through the internet
  • Javascript

    Made by Brendan Eich; It is made to make web development easier and more attractive