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History of Coding Languages

By bakerla

  • Plankalkul

    The name means plan calculus in german. It was developed by Konrad Zuse for high level engineering uses.

  • Fortran

    FORmula TRANslating systemwas developed by John Backers and used for numeric and and scientific computations.

  • Math-matic

    Created by Sperry Rand as a commericial compiler for UNIVAC I

  • Lisp

    Stands for Locator/identifier Separation Protocol. Created bySteve Russel and Timothy Hart to be used as a mathematical notation for programs and AI development

  • COBL

    Stands for Common Business Oriented Language. Developed by Howard Bromberg to be used in business finance and administrative systems.

  • RGB

    Stands for Report Program Generator. Developed by IBM to replicate punched card processing.

  • BASIC

    Stands for Begginer's All-purpose Symbolistic Instruction Code. Intended to give those who wanted to develop software easy access to programming. Developed by John G. Kennedy and Thomas E. Kurtz.

  • LOGO

    Created by Wally Feurzeig as an educational coding language.

  • B

    Derived from BCPL and intended to abbrieviate it to fit into the memory capacity of microcomputers at the time. Developed by Ken thompson and Dennis Ritchie

  • PASCAL

    Named for the philosopher Blaise Pascal and developed by Nikolaus Virth and intended to teach students structured programming.

  • C

    Stands for Cross-platform. Designed to influence cross- platform programming. Developed by Dennis Ritchie.

  • ML

    Short for metalanguage designed by Robin Milner to develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover.

  • SQL

    Structured Query Language was created by ISO/EEC adn used for relational database management systems.

  • ADA

    Named for Ada Lovelace, intended to unify the DoD's coding languages. Now used in large software development. Developed by Jean Ichbach and later Tucker Taft

  • C++

    An extension of C designed by Biarne Stroustrup to be highly efficient and flexible.

  • Python

    Named after the movie character Monty Python this language was developed by Guido Van Rossum to express code in the fewest lines possible.

  • Visual Basic

    Derived from basic and developed by microsoft as an easy to use and learn language for application development.

  • Delphi

    Developed by Embarcadero Technologies for rapid application development.

  • Java

    Named after a type of coffee this software was developed by James Gosling and intended to give simple code designed to run on any computer architecture.

  • Javascript

    Having little common with Java, Brenden Eich created this code to create web applications in a variant of C.

  • PHP

    Stands for Personal Home Page developed by Remus Lerdorf and used to build simple dynamic web applications.