Computer Programming Languages

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    History of Computer Programming

  • Plankalkül

    Developed by Konrad Zues
    Designed for engineering purposes
  • MATH-MATIC

    Developer Team led by Charles Katz
    Intended as an improvement over FORTRAN.
  • Fortran

    developer John Backus & IBM
    Purpose originally for scientific and engineering applications
  • Lisp

    Developer Steve Russell, Timothy P. Hart, and Mike Levin
    originally created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs.
  • RPG

    Developer IBM
    Purpose Business Applications
  • COBOL

    Designed by Grace Hopper, Wiliam Selden, Gertrude Tierney, Howard Bromberg, Howard Discound, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet
    Purpose Designed for business use
  • BASIC

    Designed by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz.
    They watned to enable students in field other than science and mathematcis to use computers.
  • LOGO

    Developer Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert
    Developed for educational use
  • B

    Developer Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie
    Designed for recusive, non-nurmeric, Machine independent applications, such as system and language software.
  • Pascal

    Desigend by Niklaus Wirth
    Intended to encourage good programming practices
  • C

    Designed by Dennis Ritchie
    Designed for Cross-platform programming
  • SQL

    Developed by IBM
    Shorten for Structured Query Language
    Designed for managing data held in a relational database management system
  • ML

    Designed by Robin Milner & others at the University of Deinburgh
    General-purpose functional programming language
  • C++

    Designed by Bjarne Stroustrup
    Designed for Systems Programming
  • ADA

    Designed by Jean Ichbiah
    Designed for United States Department of Defense
  • Python

    Develper Guido Van Rossum
    Allows programmers to express concepts in fewer lines of code than would be possible in languages such as C.
  • Visual Basic

    Develpoed by Alan Cooper, Sold to Microsoft
    Designed to be east to learn and use
  • Delphi

    Developer Embarcadero Technologies
    Developed as a rapid application development tool for windows
  • Java

    Developer Oracle Corporation
    Developed for "write once, run anywhere"
  • JavaScript

    Developer Netscape Communications Corporation, Mozilla Foundation
    Developed for Web Browsers
  • PHP

    Developer The PHP Group
    Designed for web development bu also used as a general-purpose programming language.