Programming Language Timeline

  • Plankalkül

    Concept first published Konrad Zuse
  • Fortran

    in full Formula Translation, computer-programming language created in 1957 by John Backus that shortened the process of programming and made computer programming more accessible.
  • Math-Matic

    a programming language created in 1957. MATH-MATIC is the marketing name for the AT-3 (Algebraic Translator 3) compiler, an early programming language for the UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II
  • Cobol

    Fifty years ago, each computer maker used its own programming languages to tell a computer what to do. A group of programmers devised COBOL, a COmmon, Business-Oriented Language.
  • RPG

    It was developed by the tech giant IBM as the Report Program Generator- a tool that was developed to serve as an alternative for the punch card processing system on the IBM 1401
  • Lisp

    LISP, in full list processing, a computer programming language developed by John McCarthy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  • Basic

    Invented by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, BASIC was first successfully used to run programs on the school's General Electric computer system
  • Logo

    Logo was created at Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN), a Cambridge, Massachusetts research firm, by Wally Feurzeig, Cynthia Solomon, and Seymour Papert
  • B

    B is a programming language developed at Bell Labs circa . It is the work of Ken Thompson with Dennis Ritchie. B was derived from BCPL, and its name may be a contraction of BCPL.
  • SQL

    The SQL programming language was first developed by IBM researchers Raymond Boyce and Donald Chamberlin
  • Pascal

    Pascal, a computer programming language developed by Niklaus Wirth of Switzerland to teach structured programming, which emphasizes the orderly use of conditional and loop control structures without GOTO statements.
  • C

    C is a general-purpose, high-level language that was originally developed by Dennis M. Ritchie to develop the UNIX operating system at Bell Labs. C was originally first implemented on the DEC PDP-11 computer
  • ML

    ML Robin Milner and others at the University of Edinburgh
  • ADA

    Ada was originally developed in the early 1980s (this version is generally known as Ada 83) by a team led by Dr. Jean Ichbiah at CII-Honeywell-Bull in France
  • Python

    Python is an interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language. Created by Guido van Rossum and first released in 1991, Python's design philosophy emphasizes code readability with its notable use of significant whitespace
  • Visual Basic

    VB 1.0 was introduced in 1991. The approach for connecting the programming language to the graphical user interface is derived from a system called Tripod (sometimes also known as Ruby), originally developed by Alan Cooper, which was further developed by Cooper and his associates under contract to Microsoft.
  • PHP

    Created in 1994 by Rasmus Lerdorf, the very first incarnation of PHP was a simple set of Common Gateway Interface (CGI) binaries written in the C programming language
  • Java Script

    Brendan Eich, a Netscape Communications Corporation programmer, created JavaScript in September 1995
  • Java

    Java was originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems (which has since been acquired by Oracle) and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform.
  • Delphi

    Delphi (later known as Delphi 1) was released in 1995 for the 16-bit Windows 3.1, and was an early example of what became known as Rapid Application Development (RAD) tools
  • C++

    Before the initial standardization in 1998, C++ was developed by Danish computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Labs since 1979 as an extension of the C language