Computer languages time line timeline

(Konrad Zuse)
the purpose was for the creation of procedures and structured data. sourced from https://www.britannica.com/technology/Zuse-computer#ref1009910
stands for Plan Calculus

{ John Backus and his team at IBM} " The name FORTRAN is an acronym for FORmula TRANslation because it was designed to allow easy translation of math formulas into code." sourced from(https://www.livephysics.com/computational-physics/fortran/history-fortran-language/#:~:text=One%20of%20the%20oldest%20programming,of%20math%20formulas%20into%20code.)

(Sperry Rand)
It elimnates the need to write step-by-step coded computer instructions and now the problem will be described in English language sentences and algebraic equations. sourced from https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/historydisplays/FourthFloor/ReportsAndViewer/Reports/MATH-MATIC.pdf
MATH-MATIC was a marketing name for AT-3

(John Mcarthy) The main purpose of it "simple notation in which operations and their operands are given in a parenthesized
list, also uses the list structure to represent data, and, because programs and data use the same structure, it is easy for a LISP program to operate on other programs as data." "LISP, in full list processing". sited from https://www.britannica.com/technology/LISP-computer-language

Grace Hopper, made for business programs portable for example to maintain payrolls, prepare budgets, and track property, traditional aspects of business data processing. , a COmmon, Business-Oriented Language.
https://americanhistory.si.edu/cobol/introduction

" It was developed by IBM as the Report Program Generator
it is a tool that provides a highly enabling programming environment for AS400 RPG Programmers." sited from https://programmers.io/rpg-programming-language/

John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz, “Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code” is the name because they wanted it to be very approachable. “We needed a language that could be ‘taught’ to virtually all students (and faculty) without their having to take a course.”
https://time.com/69316/basic/

(Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon)
To "develop simulations, and to create multimedia presentations and games" and be for kids to learn.

https://el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/what_is_logo/history.html
There s no meaning to LOGO and its not a acronym.

D. M. Ritchie and Ken Thompson, ''The B programming language came from BCPL(Basic Combined Programming Language). B was primarily purposed for recursive, non-numeric, applications that are independent of machines, such as system and language software.''
https://studysection.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-b-programming-language/

(Blaise Pascal)
The primary purpose was "to develop a programming language applicable to both commercial and scientific applications, and which could also be used to teach programming techniques to college students." It is named after him. sited from https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/software-languages/

Dennis Ritchie C was made to help the problems of previous languages such as B, BCPL, and others and to be used in UNIX operating system. The name comes from BCPL.
https://www.javatpoint.com/history-of-c-language

It main purpose is "writing programs that manipulate other programs, also it can automatically assign the types of most expressions without explicit type annotations" sited from https://www.whoishostingthis.com/resources/ml/#:~:text=The%20ML%20programming%20language%20was,ML%20and%20introduced%20in%201972.
ML stands for meta-language

Raymond F. Boyce, Donald Chamberlend "Structured Query Language, which is a computer language for storing, manipulating and retrieving data stored in a relational database." sited from
https://www.tutorialspoint.com/sql/sql-overview.htm

Dr.Jean Ichbiah, ''wanted to develop a centralized and standardized computer programming language because there were thousands of languages in use, most of which were designed for just one system. ADA was officially standardized in 1979 and exclusively controlled by the Department of Defense, but they released the language to the public in 1987.'' https://www.onlinegamedesignschools.org/ada-programming-language/
ADA is prescribed from the first program Ada Lovelace her work with Charles Babbage.

Bjarne Stroustrup, "His language included classes, basic inheritance, inlining, default function arguments, and strong type checking in addition to all the features of the C language. The first C with Classes compiler was called Cfront, which was derived from a C compiler called CPre" Sourced from
http://www.cplusplus.com/info/history/

(Guido van Rossum)
It was mainly developed for emphasis on code readability,
"The inspiration for the name came from BBC’s TV Show – ‘Monty Python’s Flying Circus’, as he was a big fan of the TV show and also he wanted a short, unique and slightly mysterious name for his invention." sited from
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/history-of-python/

Microsoft
"it allows programmers to create Windows applications quickly and easily". sited from https://www.encyclopedia.com/science-and-technology/computers-and-electrical-engineering/computers-and-computing/visual-basic

(Rasmus Lerdorf)
Its purpose was to be "capable of database interaction and more, providing a framework upon which users could develop simple dynamic web applications. The name is an acronym for ("personal home page tools")." sited from https://www.php.net/manual/en/history.php.php

{Anders Hejlsberg} Delphi was meant "to be a programming language that will be able to build applications and also offer the ability to connect to database management systems. " sourced from https://kolmck.net/history-delphi-programming-language/ It is called that because of an oracle. That was the code name that was used for it before it was released. Danny Thorpe a developer for Borland suggested the name.

[James Gosling] "The Java platform’s (“Write Once, Run Anywhere”) functionality let a program run on any system, offering users independence from traditional large software vendors like Microsoft or Apple." sourced from https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/software-languages/
The is name Java because its is after the coffee name java.

(Brendan Eich) "JavaScript is a scripting language that is one of the three core languages used to develop websites". "The name JavaScript came from Netscape's support of Java applets within its browser." sited from
https://www.springboard.com/blog/history-of-javascript/ Also as a marketing tactic do to the popularity of java

Computer languages time line

Plankalkul

FORTRAN

MATH-MATIC

Lisp

COBOL

RPG

BASIC

LOGO

B

PASCAL

C

ML

SQL

ADA

C++

Python

Visual Basic

PHP

Delphi

Java

JavaScript