Computer Programming History

By nhardison

  • Plankalkul

    1941, developed by Konrad Zuse

  • MATH-MATIC

    1955, developed by Grace Hopper

  • Fortran

    1957, developed by John Backus

  • COBOL

    1959, developed by Grace Hopper

  • RPG

    1959, developed by a team at IBM

  • LISP

    1960, developed by John McCarthy

  • BASIC

    1963, developed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz

  • LOGO

    1967, developed by Wally Feurzeig

  • B

    1969, developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie

  • ML

    1970, developed by Robin Miller

  • PASCAL

    1970, developed by Niklaus Wirth

  • SQL

    1970, developed by Raymond Boyce and Donald Chamberlin

  • C

    1972, developed by Dennis M. Ritchie

  • C++

    1979, developed by Bjarne Stroustrup

  • Python

    1980, developed by Guido Van Rossum

  • ADA

    1980's, developed by Dr. Jean Ichbiah,

  • Java

    1991, developed by James Gosling

  • Visual Basic

    1991, developed by Alan Cooper

  • PHP

    1994, developed by Rasmus Lerdorf

  • Delphi

    1995, developed by Borland

  • Javascript

    1995, Brendan Eich