Programming Languages

  • ADA

    Ada Lovelace developed ADA in the mid 1800s.
  • Plankalkul

    Konrad Zuse made Plankalkul in 1943 but the program was not used until 1998.
  • Fortran

    John Backus designed Fortran in 1955.
  • Java

    Java was developed in 1995 by Sun Microsystems Incorporated.
  • MATH-MATIC

    Charles Katz and Grace Hopper developed MATH-MATIC in 1957.
  • LISP

    LISP was created by John McCarthy.
  • COBOL

    COBOL was designed by Grace Hopper in 1959.
  • RPG

    The same year COBOL was made IBM made RPG.
  • BASIC

    John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz developed BASIC at Dartmouth University in 1964.
  • LOGO

    Wally Feurzeig, Seymore Papert, and Cynthia Solomon designed LOGO in 1967.
  • B

    Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie created B while working at Bell Labs.
  • Pascal

    Niklaus Wirth created Pascal in 1970.
  • C

    Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan while working for AT&T developed C.
  • ML

    Robert Milner created ML in 1973.
  • SQL

    SQL was created by IBM employees Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce.
  • Python

    Python was designed by Guido van Rossum in 1991.
  • Visual Basic

    Microsoft created Visual Basic in 1991.
  • Delphi

    Delphi was developed by Borland in 1995.
  • JavaScript

    JavaScript was created by Brendan Eich while working at Netscape.
  • PHP

    PHP was designed by Rasmus Lerd in 1995.