Language History

By GuyARoss

  • plankalkiul

    Built for engineering purposes by Konrad Zuse.

  • Fortran

    Built by IBM[3] in the 1950s for scientific and engineering applications. Derived from "Formula Translation"

  • MATH-MATIC

    Build as a programming language for the UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II by Remington Rand.

  • Lisp

    Built and used for a high-level programming language by John McCarthy. Acronym for list processing

  • cobol

    Built for business use by Howard Bromberg. Acronym for common business oriented language.

  • RPG

    Built for business applications by IBM.

  • Basic

    Enabled students in fields other than science and mathematics to use computers effectually. Basic is an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

  • Logo

    Built as a educational programming language by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert.

  • b

    'b' Was designed for recursive, non-numeric, machine independent applications, such as system and language software by Ken Thompson. The name was derived from BCPL.

  • pascal

    Built as a imperative and procedural programming language by Niklaus Wirth.

  • ml

    Built as a general-purpose functional programming language by Robin Milner.

  • Sql

    Built for managing data held in a database by Donald D. Chamberlin & Raymond F. Boyce. Meaning Structured Query Language

  • c

    Built for re-implementing the Unix operating system by Dennis Ritchie

  • c++

    Built for system programming and embedded, resource-constrained and large systems, with performance, efficiency and flexibility of use as its design highlights by Bjarne Stroustrup

  • Ada

    Built by Jean Ichbiah, for design-by-contract.

  • python

    Built for expressing concepts in fewer lines of code by Guido van Rossum.

  • Delphi

    Built for a tool for Windows as the successor of Turbo Pascal by Embarcadero Technologies.

  • Java

    Built for the intended to let application developers "write once, run anywhere" by James Gosling

  • Javascript

    Built for high-level, dynamic, untyped, and interpreted programming language by Brendan Eich.

  • php

    Built as a server-side scripting language designed for web development but also used as a general-purpose programming language by Ramus lerdorf. Acronym for Hypertext Preprocessor

  • Visual Basic

    Built for multi paradigm OOPL by Microsoft.