1.2 Timeline Assignment

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  • Plankalkul

    Plankalkul, which is German for "Plan calculus", was developed by Konrad Zuse.
    The year is concept first published.

  • Fortran

    Developed by IBM, Fortran stands for FORmula TRANslation.

  • Lisp

    Developed by John McCarthy

  • RPG

    Developed by IBM, this is a High Level Language (HLL).

  • COBOL

    Common Business Oriented Language (COBOL) was designed by CODASYL.

  • BASIC

    The Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (BASIC) was developed by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz.

  • LOGO

    Derived from the Greek word "Logos", meaning "thought", LOGO was designed by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon.

  • B

    B is a language developed by Bell Labs.

  • PASCAL

    PASCAL was developed by Niklaus Wirth

  • C

    Developed by Bell Labs

  • ML

    Meta-Language (ML) was developed by Robin Milner.

  • SQL

    Developed by ISO/IEC, SQL stands for Structured Query Language.

  • ADA

    Developed by a team for the Department of Defense, ADA is named after Ada Lovelace.

  • C++

    Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup, the name signifies the changes to C.

  • MATH-MATIC

    A Mathematical Programming Language (AMPL) was developed by AMPL Optimization, Inc.

  • Python

    Developed by Python Software Foundation

  • Visual Basic

    A language as well as an IDE, Visual Basic was developed by Microsoft.

  • JavaScript

    Developed by Brendan Eich

  • Delphi

    Developed by Borland

  • Java

    Developed by James Gosling, with Sun Microsystems (now owned by Oracle)

  • PHP

    PHP was developed by Zend Technologies. It used to stand for "Personal Home Page" but now is a recursive acronym for "PHP: Hypertext Processor".