Programming Language Timeline

Plankalkül published

Oct 1, 1948

Plankalkül (Plan Calculus) was designed by Konrad Zuse for engineering purposes and was developed between 1943-45.

Fortran

Oct 1, 1957

Fortran was developed in 1957 by John Backus and was designed as a general programming language, focusing mostly on computations.

MATH-MATIC

Oct 4, 1957

MATH-MATIC was a programming language that was meant to be an improvement over FORTRAN, it was designed by Charles Katz.

Lisp Created

Oct 1, 1958

Lisp (Originally LISP, for LIst Processor) was designed by John McCarthy and utilized by Steve Russell for machine code.

COBOL designed

Oct 1, 1959

COBOL (Common Business Orientated Language) was designed by Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden, and Gertrude Tierney for use in businesses.

RPG released by IBM

Oct 1, 1959

RPG (Report Program Generator) was released as a business orientated language by IBM.

BASIC Developed

Oct 1, 1964

B was developed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College for use with less technical users, who couldn't use other more difficult languages.

Logo designed

Oct 1, 1967

Logo was designed by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert primarilly as an educational progamming language, and became famous for its vector graphics.

B Developed

Oct 1, 1969

The B language was developed in 1969 by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie for use with recursive, non-numeric, machine independent applications.

PASCAL published

Oct 4, 1970

PASCAL was published by Niklaus Wirth after being in development since 1978. It was meant an efficient programming language, and was named after Blaise Pascal the French mathmetician.

C Developed

Oct 1, 1972

C was developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labrotories as an improved B, with many of the same functions.

ML created

Oct 1, 1973

ML (Meta Language) was created by Robin Miler as a general purpose programming language.

SQL Developed

Oct 1, 1974

SQL (Structured Query Language) was developed by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce as a language for data management.

First Implementation of ADA

Apr 11, 1983

This was the first confirmed use of the ADA language, this iteration was developed by Jean Ichbiah.

C++ Created

Oct 1, 1983

C++ was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup a general purpose language.

Python published

Oct 1, 1991

Python is a general purpose language that allows for fewer line syntax, it was developed by Guido van Rossum.

Visual Basic Released by Microsoft

Oct 1, 1991

Microsoft released Visual basic as a language that would be easy to learn and allow for the development of programs.

Javascript Released

May 10, 1995

Javascript was programmed in 10 days by Brendan Eich, with the purpose of web content production.

Delphi 1 Released

Oct 1, 1995

Delphi was initially released to be used with Windows 3.1 and was developed by Anders Hejlsberg.

Java Created

Oct 1, 1995

Java was developed by James Gosling and Sun Microsystems for use with the internet.

PHP created

Oct 1, 1995

PHP was developed by Rasmus Lerdorf and stood for Personal Home Page, although now it stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. It was intended for web development although it has been used for general programming.