Programming Languages Timeline

Plankalkul

1948

Developer- Konrad Zuse
Primary purpose- It was designed for engineering purposes.
Full form- Plankalkül refers to a formal system for planning.

Fortran

1957

Developer- John Backus and IBM
Primary purpose- It is primarily suited to numeric computation and scientific computing.
Full form- Formula Translation

MATH-MATIC

1957

Developer- Remington Rand
Primary purpose- It was an early programming language for the UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II.
Full form- Not an acronym

Lisp

1958

Developer- Steve Russell, Timothy P. Hart, and Mike Levin
Primary purpose- It was designed for easy manipulation of data strings. It is a commonly used language for artificial intelligence (AI) programming
Full form- List processing

COBOL

1959

Developer- CODASYL, ANSI, and ISO
Primary purpose- It is primarily used in business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments.
Full form- Common business-oriented language

RPG

1959

Developer- IBM
Primary purpose- It was was built for heavyweight business applications.
Full form- Report Program Generator

BASIC

1964

Developer- John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz
Primary purpose- It's design philosophy emphasizes ease of use.
Full form- It stands for Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

LOGO

1967

Developer- Bolt, Beranek and Newman
Primary purpose- Logo is widely known for its use of turtle graphics
Full form- Not an acronym but derives from the Greek logos, meaning word or thought.

B

1969

Developer- Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie
Primary purpose- B was designed for recursive, non-numeric, machine-independent applications, such as system and language software.
Full form- It is derived from BCPL so the name may be the concentration of BCPL.

PASCAL

1970

Developer- Niklaus Wirth
Primary purpose- As a small, efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring
Full form- Not an acronym but It is named in honour of the French mathematician, philosopher and physicist Blaise Pascal.

C

1972

Developer- Dennis Ritchie & Bell Labs
Primary purpose- It was mainly developed as a system programming language to write an operating system.
Full form- It is called C because it is based on the B programming language and C is what comes next on the alphabet.

ML

1973

Developer- Robin Milner and others at the University of Edinburgh
Primary purpose- It is a statically-scoped functional programming language like Scheme. It is known for its use of the polymorphic Hindley–Milner type system.
Full form- Meta Language

SQL

1974

Developer- ISO/IEC
Primary purpose- It is particularly useful in handling structured data, i.e. data incorporating relations among entities and variables.
Full form- Structured query language

ADA

1980

Developer- Jean Ichbiah, and S. Tucker Taft
Primary purpose- It was designed to decrease the number of programming languages that United States Department of Defense use.
Full form- Ada was named after Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer.

C++

1985

Developer- ISO/IEC JTC1 (Joint Technical Committee 1) / SC22 (Subcommittee 22) / WG21 (Working Group 21)
Primary purpose- It helps programmers write fast, portable programs. In addition to facilities for low-level memory manipulation.
Full form- It is an extension of the C programming language. That's why it is a C with two addition signs.

Python

1990

Developer- Python Software Foundation
Primary purpose- It was aimed to help programmers write clear, logical code for small and large-scale projects.
Full form- It was named after after the television show Monty Python's Flying Circus.

Visual Basic

1991

Developer- Microsoft
Primary purpose- Microsoft intended Visual Basic to be relatively easy to learn and use.
Full form- Visual Basic was derived from BASIC. That's why the word "basic" is still on the name.

Delphi

1995

Developer- Borland
Primary purpose- It is for rapid application development of desktop, mobile, web, and console software
Full form- Not an acronym

Java

1995

Developer- Sun Microsystems
Primary purpose- It is class-based, object-oriented, and designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible.
Full form- Not an acronym

Javascript

1995

Developer- Netscape Communications Corporation, Mozilla Foundation, Ecma International
Primary purpose- is a scripting language that enables you to create dynamically updating content, control multimedia, animate images, and pretty much everything else.
Full form- Not an acronym but can be written as JS.

PHP

1995

Developer- The PHP Development Team, Zend Technologies
Primary purpose- It was originally designed for web development.
Full form- Personal Home Page