1.2 timeline assignment

  • Plankalkul

    Designed Konrad Zuse. A programming language designed for engineering purposes.
  • Fortran

    Designed by John Backus. Fortran was built for scientific and engineering applications. Short for Formula Translation
  • MATH-MATIC

    Developed by Remington Rand. Used for providing algebraic-style expressions and floating-point arithmetic.
  • Lisp

    Designed by John McCarthy. Primarily used for practical mathematical notation for computer programs.
  • COBOL

    Made by Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden, Gertrude Tierney. Cobol was a English like language meant for business use. COBOL stands for common business-oriented language.
  • RPG

    Developed by IBM.Made as a tool to replicate punched card processing on the IBM 1401. Acronym for Report Program Generator
  • Basic

    Designed by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz. Basic was used to give an easy to learn code to average people.
    Acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
  • LOGO

    Developed by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert. Used to teach concepts of programming related to Lisp
  • B

    Developed by Ken Thompson, B was designed for recursive, non-numeric, machine independent applications.
  • PASCAL

    Designed by Niklaus Wirth. Intended to encourage good programming practices.
  • C

    Created by Dennis Ritchie, C was primarily used to re-implement the Unix operating system
  • ML

    Developed by Robin Milner. Used to develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover. Acronym for MetaLanguage
  • SQL

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

    Developed by Jean Ichbiah in 1980 to standardize the programing languages of the US DoD. The program is named after Ada Lovelace.
  • C++

    Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup. C++ was an extension of the C language built for program organization.
  • Python

    Designed by Guido van Rossum. Main purpose is readability along with being simpler than other larger languages.
  • Visual Basic

    Developed by Microsoft. Built for beginners and easy, simple coding .
  • Delphi

  • Java

    Developed by James Gosling. Built so that once the code is written it can be run on any system.
  • JavaScript

    Designed by Brendan Eich. Primarily used for Web design.
  • PHP

    Developed by Rasmus Lerdorf. Designed for web development. Acronym for Personal Home Page.