Computer Languages Timeline

  • Plankalkul Developed by Konrad Zuse. First programming language designed for a computer.

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    Computer Languages Timeline

  • MATH-MATIC Developed by Charles Katz and team

  • FORTRAN I Developed by John W. Backus and IBM. Used for numeric and scientific computing.

  • COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language) Developed by Grace Murray Hopper The first user friendly business computer software program.

  • LISP Developed by John McCarthy

  • BASIC (Beginners’ All- Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) Developed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz

  • RPG Developed by IBM

  • LOGO Developed by Wally Feurzeig

  • B Developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. The program was typeless. Everything was a word.

  • Pascal Developed by Nicklaus Wirth and Kathleen Jensen

  • C Developed by Dennis Ritchie. Static type system that prevents unintended operation.

  • ML Developed by Robin Milner

  • C++ Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup. This program is a combination of procedural and object oriented programming.

  • ADA Developed by Jean Ichbiah and S. Tucker Taft

  • SQL (Structural Query Language) Developed by Donald Chamberlain and Raymond Boyce

  • Python Developed by Guido van Rossum

  • Visual Basic Developed by Cooper and team for Microsoft

  • Java Developed by James Gosling

  • PHP Developed by Rasmus Lerdorf

  • Javascript Developed by Brendan Eich

  • Delphi Developed by Borland