2.1.5 Programming Language Timeline Assignment

Programming Language Timeline Assignment

Period: Jan 1, 1948 to Jan 1, 1995

Plankalkul

Sep 3, 1948

Developers:Konrad Zuse Purpose:engineering

MATH-MATIC

Sep 3, 1957

Developers: Charles Katz Purpose: compiler
Acronym:

Fortran

Sep 3, 1957

Developers:John Backus
Purpose:solving mathematical and statistical problems
Acronym:Formula Translation

Lisp

Sep 3, 1958

Developers: Steve Russell, Timothy P. Hart, and Mike Levin
Purpose: computer science research
Acronym:List Processing

COBOL

Sep 3, 1959

Developers: Grace Hopper, William Selden, Gertrude Tierney, Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet
Purpose: maintaining data processing procedures and files handling problems
Acronym:Common Business Oriented Language

RPG

Sep 3, 1959

Developers: IBM
Purpose: business applications
Acronym:Report Program Generator

BASIC

Sep 3, 1964

Developers: Thomas E. Kurtz and John George Kemeny
Purpose: solving mathematical and statistical problems
Acronym:Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

BASIC

Sep 4, 1964

Developers: Thomas E. Kurtz and John George Kemeny
Purpose: solving mathematical and statistical problems
Acronym:Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

LOGO

Sep 4, 1967

Developers: Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert
Purpose: use of turtle graphics
Acronym:

B

Sep 4, 1969

Developers: Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritiche
Purpose: non-numeric applications
Acronym:

PASCAL

Sep 4, 1970

Developers:Niklaus Wirth
Purpose: Teaching Language
Acronym:

C

Sep 4, 1972

Developers: Dennis Ritchie & Bell Labs
Purpose: Gaming
Acronym:

ML

Sep 4, 1973

Developers: Robin Milner
Purpose: general
Acronym: metalanguage

SQL

Sep 4, 1974

Developers: Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce"
Purpose: managing data held in a relational database management system 
Acronym:Structured Query Language

ADA

Sep 4, 1980

Developers: a team led by Dr. Jean Ichbiah
Purpose: language source code files
Acronym:

C++

Sep 4, 1980

Developers: Developers: Purpose: Acronym:
Purpose: Large Projects
Acronym:

Delphi

Sep 4, 1986

Developers: Apple, Niklaus Wirth,Anders Hejlsberg
Purpose: object-oriented programming arena
Acronym:

Python

Sep 4, 1991

Developers: Guido van Rossum
Purpose: general
Acronym:

Visual Basic

Sep 4, 1991

Developers: Microsoft
Purpose: graphical user interface
Acronym:

Java

Sep 4, 1995

Developers: "James Gosling and Sun Microsystems"
Purpose: Networking
Acronym:

Javascript

Sep 4, 1995

Developers: Brendan Eich
Purpose: PDF documents, site-specific browsers, and desktop widgets
Acronym:

PHP

Sep 4, 1995

Developers: Rasmus Lerdorf
Purpose: Webpage design
Acronym: