Programing Time Line

  • Plankalkül

    between 1943 and 1945
    Konrad Zuse
    first high-level non-von Neumann programming language to be designed for a computer.
  • Fortran

    in 1950’s
    by IBM
    For scientific and engineering applications
  • MATH-MATIC

    in 1957
    Created by a group led by Charles Katz
    Intended as an improvement over FORTRAN
  • Lisp

    1958
    John McCarthy
    a practical mathematical notation for computer programs,
  • COBOL (COmmon Business-Oriented Language)

    second half of 1959.
    Grace Murray Hopper
    A commonly used business language
  • RPG (Report Program Generator)

    1959
    By IBM
    tool to replicate punched card processing on the IBM 1401
  • BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code)

    1964
    John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz
    Wanted it to be able to be used by people other than scientist and mathematicians who
  • LOGO

    1967
    by Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon.
    for educational use, more so for constructivist teaching,
  • B

    first appeared circa 1969.
    It was mostly the work of Ken Thompson, with contributions from Dennis Ritchie
    Computing program able to fit in memory capacity of the minicomputers of the time.
  • SQL (Structured Query Language)

    early 1970s.
    at IBM by Donald D. Chamberlin, Donald C. Messerly, and Raymond F. Boyce
    manipulate and retrieve data stored in IBM's original quasi-relational database management system
  • ML (MetaLanguage)

    early 1970s
    Robin Milner and others
    conceived to develop proof tactics
  • PASCAL

    published in 1970
    Niklaus Wirth
    for object-oriented programming.
  • C

    1972
    Dennis Ritchie
    to be a general purpose program
  • ADA

    1977 to 1983
    designed by a team led by Jean Ichbiah of CII Honeywell Bull
    Going to replace the other languages used by the department of defence.
  • c++

    1979
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    an enhancement to C Language
  • Python

    late 1980’s
    Guido van Rossum
    a program capable of exception handling and interfacing with the Amoeba operating system
  • Visual Basic

    first released in 1991
    developed by Alan Cooper and his company called Tripod.
    Microsoft has developed derivatives of Visual Basic for use in scripting. Visual Basic itself is derived heavily from BASIC, and subsequently has been replaced with a.NET platform version.
  • Java

    in june 1991
    by James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, and Patrick Naughton
    designed for interactive television
  • PHP (Personal Home Page)

    1994
    Rasmus Lerdorf
    used to build simple web applications
  • Javascript

    in 1995
    Brendan Eich
    program to compete with c++