Programming Language Timeline

  • Palnkalkul

    Palnkalkul
    Is a programming language designed for engineering purposes. It was designed by Konrad Zuse.
  • Fortran

    Fortran
    It was developed by John Backus and was used for scientific and engineering applications. It is an acronym for Formula translating system. It is the oldest high-level programming language.
  • MATH-MATIC

    MATH-MATIC
    It was developed by Charels Katz and was developed to be an improvement over Fortran.
  • Lisp

    Lisp
    Lisp was designed by John McCarthy and was used for artificial intelligence programming. It is an acronym for List Processing.
  • COBOL

    COBOL
    COBOL was designed by Howard Bromberg and stood for Common Business Oriented Language. It was used to program business applications.
  • RPG

    RPG
    Is a high-level programming language for business applications, it was developed by IBM. RPG is an acronym for Report Program Generator.
  • BASIC

    BASIC
    BASIC is an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. It was designed by John George Kemeny and Tohmas Eugene Kurtz. BASIC emphasizes ease of use.
  • LOGO

    LOGO
    It is an educational programming language that was designed by Daniel G. Brobow. Today, it is mainly known for its Turtle Graphics.
  • B

    B
    The B programming language was designed by Ken Thompson. The name is a contraction for BCPL and was meant to be used for non-numeric independent applications such as language software.
  • Pascal

    Pascal
    Was designed by Niklaus Wirth. Pascal is a historically influential imperative and procedural programming language. It was designed to teach students structured programming.
  • C

    C
    C was designed by Dennis Ritchie. It is a general purpose language that was used to prevent unintended operations. It was the most widely used operation of all-time.
  • ML

    ML
    ML is a general-purpose programming language that was developed by Robin Milner.
  • Ada

    Ada
    Ada was named after Ada Lovelace, also known as the first programmer. Ada was designed by Jean Ichbiah and Tucker Taft. It was made to supercede all other languages and to be used by the Department of Defense.
  • Python

    Python
    Python is a widely used general-purpose, high-level programming language. It emphasizes code readabilty, and it allows programmers to make fewer lines of code.
  • Delphi

    Delphi
    It was developed by Borland and it was a rapid application development tool for Windows.
  • Java

    Java
    It was developed by James Gosling and is a general purpose language that emphasized compatibility.
  • JavaScript

    JavaScript
    It was developed by Brandon Eich and was used by websites/web browsers as well as server side networking game development and the creation of desktop and mobile applications.
  • PHP

    PHP
    PHP is a server-side scripting language designed for web development but also used as a general-purpose programming language. it was designed by Rasmus Lerdorf.
  • Visual Basic

    Visual Basic
    Visual Basic is a legacy third-party generation event-driven programming language and intergrated development enviroment from Microsoft. Was intended to be easy to learn and use, it was derived from BASIC.
  • CH

    CH
    It was designed by Harry H. Cheng and was used to interpret the C programming language. It was intially written in C.