History of Programming Languages

Programming Languages

Period: Jan 1, 1948 to Oct 5, 2015

Plankalkul

Oct 5, 1948

Year Created: 1948
Created by: Konrad Zuse
Purpose: First attempt at making an algorithmic language for engineering.

Fortran (Formula Translating System)

Oct 5, 1957

Year Created: 1957
Created by: IBM
Purpose: Originally as scientific and engineering calculations, but became widely used for its scientific and numerical computations

MATH-MATIC

Oct 7, 1957

Year Created: 1957
Created by: Grace Hopper
Purpose: To be an upgrade from Fortran

LISP (LISt Processor)

Oct 5, 1958

Year Created: 1958
Created by: John McCarthy at MIT
Purpose: AI technology

COBOL (Common Business Orientated Language)

Oct 5, 1959

Year Created: 1959
Created by: Conference on Data Systems Languages
Purpose: Financial and admin systems of companies and governments

RPG (Report Program Generator)

Oct 7, 1959

Year Created: 1959
Created by: IBM
Purpose: To replace punch cards that were becoming obselete

BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code)

Oct 5, 1964

Year Created: 1964
Created by: John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz
Purpose: Allowed students to use computer's without being knowledgable in the fields of math or science

LOGO

Oct 5, 1967

Year Created: 1967
Created by: Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon
Purpose: To teach students how to understand programming and enabled them to get real-time response

B

Oct 5, 1969

Year Created: 1969
Created by: Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie
Purpose: Derived from the old language BCPL, it was intended for machine-free system and language software

PASCAL

Oct 5, 1970

Year Created: 1970
Created by: Niklaus Wirth
Purpose: Use a concept he promoted, would allow users to define complex datatypes and made it easier to create dynamic and recursive-type data

C

Oct 5, 1972

Year Created: 1972
Created by: Dennis Richie at AT&T Bell Labs
Purpose: To re-implement the Unix operating system

ML

Oct 5, 1973

Year Created: 1973
Created by: Robin Milner and his team
Purpose: To create proof tactics, especially in the LCF theorem prover

SQL (Structured Query Language)

Oct 5, 1974

Year Created: 1974
Created by: Donald D. Chamberlin & Raymond F. Boyce
Purpose: Manage data that was within the RDMBS and for stream processing

ADA

Oct 5, 1980

Year Created: 1980
Created by: Dr. Jean Ichbiah and his team
Purpose: The purpose was for large, long lasting applications to be made with reliability embedded systems as a priority and was mainly serviced in the military even now

C++

Oct 5, 1983

Year Created: 1983
Created by: Bjarne Stroustrup
Purpose: To excel in creating operating system softwares

Python

Oct 5, 1991

Year Created: 1991
Created by: Guido Von Russum
Purpose: To be a successor of ABC and letting the code be understood and more condensed than something like java

Visual Basic

Oct 7, 1991

Year Created: 1991
Created by: Microsoft
Purpose: Easy to use language to control and manipulate but also allowed experienced users to work well with it

Delphi

Oct 5, 1995

Year Created: 1995
Created by: Borland
Purpose: An upgrade from Borland Pascal as a RAD tool but now is an IDE for console, desktop, and smartphone applications

Java

Oct 7, 1995

Year Created: 1995
Created by: James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, and Patrick Naughton
Purpose: To run on any system once coded. Currently is one of the top languages used.

Javascript

Oct 9, 1995

Year Created: 1995
Created by: Brendan Eich
Purpose: Became the industry standard for websites and web applications

PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor/Personal Home Page)

Oct 11, 1995

Year Created: 1995
Created by: Rasmus Lerdorf
Purpose: Main goal today is compilation and caches