Computer Programming Languages

  • Plankalkul

    Plankalkul is a programming language designed for engineering purposes by Konrad Zuse between 1942 and 1945.
  • Fortran

    Main use for numeric computation and scientific computing. Created by John Backus.
  • MATH-MATIC

    Provided algebraic expressions and other forms of arithmetic. Created by Remington Rand.
  • Lisp

    Lisp was originally created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs. Created by John McCarthy. Second oldest.
  • COBOL

    Stands for common business oriented language. Created by Grace Hopper. Designed for business use.
  • RPG

    RPG is a high-level programming language (HLL) for business applications. Created by IBM
  • BASIC

    BASIC (an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code). Created for its ease of use by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz.
  • LOGO

    Logo is an educational programming language, designed in 1967 by Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon.
  • B (BCPL)

    Created in 1969 by Ken Thompson and Denis Ritchie. Designed for machine application such as system and language software.
  • C

    Created between 1969 and 1973 by Denis Ritchie for aplication softwares.
  • PASCAL

    Pascal is an imperative and procedural programming language, which Niklaus Wirth designed in 1968–69 and published in 1970, as a small, efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.
  • ML

    Created by Robin Milner & others at the University of Edinburgh as a general-purpose functional programming language.
  • SQL

    SQL is a special-purpose programming language designed for managing data held in a relational database management system (RDBMS), or for stream processing in a relational data stream management system (RDSMS). Created by Donald D. Chamberlin Raymond F. Boyce.
  • ADA

    Created by Jean Ichbiah of CII Honeywell Bull from 1977 to 1983 to supersede over 450 other programming languages for the Department of Defense.
  • C++

    Created by Bjarne Stroustrup with key strengths being software infrastructure and resource-constrained applications.
  • Visual Basic

    Visual Basic is a third-generation event-driven programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft for its Component Object Model (COM) programming model first released in 1991 and declared legacy in 2008. Microsoft intended Visual Basic to be relatively easy to learn and use. Created by Microsoft.
  • Python

    Its design philosophy emphasizes code readability, and its syntax allows programmers to express concepts in fewer lines of code than possible in other languages. Created by Guido van Rossum.
  • PHP

    PHP is a server-side scripting language designed for web development. Created by Rasmus Lerdorf.
  • Delphi

    Delphi is a programming language and software development kit (SDK) for desktop, mobile, web, and console applications. Created by Borland in 1995.
  • Java

    Java is specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible. Created by James Gosling.
  • Javascript

    One of the three core technologies of the World Wide Web (WWW). Created by Brendan Eich.