History of Programming Languages

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  • Plankalkul

    While Plankalkul wasn't released until 1948, it began its development in the early 1940's, and holds the title of the first high-level programming language. It was designed by Konrad Zuse to be an interpretive language.
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  • MATH-MATIC

    MATH-MATIC is an earlier programming language written in 1955 by Charles Katz and their team, under the direction of Grace Hopper. The language was designed to be able to hold a larger amount of code than its predecessors, as well as hold more numerical characters.
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  • FORTRAN

    FORTRAN is a combination of the words FORmula TRANslation. It was primary developed by John Backus in 1957 for use in scientific fields.
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  • Lisp

    Lisp is a stable, object-oriented programming language developed by Steve Russel in 1958. It is a mathematics-oriented language, widely used in AI.
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  • RPG

    RPG is a high-level programming language designed for use in businesses. RPG stands for Report Program Generator, and was developed by IBM in 1959.
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  • COBOL

    COBOL is a complex programming languages created in 1960 by the CODASYL Committee aimed at businesses for file and applications. It stands for COmmon Business Oriented Language.
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  • BASIC

    BASIC is an acronym for Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, and was developed in 1963 by two mathematicians named John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtzas. It was designed to be easily accessible to everyone.

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  • LOGO

    LOGO is a very simple and easy to learn language aimed at teaching younger audiences how to code. Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon worked together to design this programming language in 1967.
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  • B

    B was developed for non-numeric applications, and is usually used in processing strings of characters and logical decision making. It was developed by D. M. Ritchie and K. L. Thompson.
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  • PASCAL

    Niklaus Wirth developed PASCAL for teaching structured programming in 1970. As opposed to its predecessors, PASCAL allowed for more organisation of complex data.
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  • C

    C was created to be flexible and easy to use for many people with various applications. It was developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie.
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  • SQL

    Structured Query Language, or SQL, was released to the public in 1979. It was designed by Raymond Boyce and Donald Chamberlin to edit and communicate with databases.
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  • ADA

    The Ada programming language is designed for large and reliable embeds and applications. While it has been updated several times, the first version was developed by Dr. Jean Ichbiah along with their team.
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  • ML

    The Meta Language programming language is a general purpose language released in 1983. It was designed by Robin Milner in collaboration with others.
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  • C++

    C++ was designed as a all-purpose program with generic, easily-understandable features. It was created by Bjarne Stroustrup in 1985.
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  • Python

    Python, named after the British television show Monty Python (as opposed to the snake), was first released to the public in 1991. It was designed by Guido van Rossum in response to the ABC programming language.
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  • Visual Basic

    Visual Basic, created by Microsoft, was released to the public in 1991 with the aim of being easy to pick up and use.
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  • Delphi

    Delphi is a visual programming language created in 1995 as an update to PASCAL, and was designed to be highly scalable and high performance. Anders Hejlsberg was the primary creator of Delphi.
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  • JavaScript

    Despite what the name implies, JavaScript is not related to Java. It is a different program developed by Brendan Eich of NetScape in 1995. JavaScript is a general-purpose programming language which is object-oriented.
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  • PHP

    PHP, or Hypertext Pre-Processer, is used mainly in websites. It was first developed in 1995 by Rasmus Lerdorf.
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  • Java

    Java was released to the public in 1996, and was developed by a team led by James Gosling. While it was originally purposed for use in mobile devices, by the time it was released it had shifted to an internet-based use, specialising in animated pages.
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