Programming Languages

  • Plankalkul

    Developed by Konrad Zuse between 1943 and 1945. Plankalkul includes conditional statements, iteration, arrays, hierarchical record structures, exception handling, and other functions.
  • Fortran

    Developed by John Backus and IBM. It used the first compiler ever made. "FORmula TRANslation"
  • MATH_MATIC

    Rand Corporation released it. Drvid by Grace Murray Hoppers A-0.
  • Lisp

    Developed by John McCarthy. Polished Prefix notation.
  • RPG

    Developed my IBM. A tool to replicate "the punch card". RPG stands for "Report Program Generator".
  • COBOL

    Developed in the second half of 1959 by Grace Hopper. It has a text output function. "COmmon Business Oriented Language"
  • BASIC

    By John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz. Has commands similar to english. "Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code"
  • LOGO

    A dialect of the Lisp language. Invented by Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon. The name came from the Greek word "logos" which means "word".
  • PASCAL

    Designed in 1968-1969 and published in 1970. Has records, enumerations, and subranges. Named after Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician and philosopher.
  • B

    By Ken Thompson. Had only one data type.
  • C

    Between 1969 and 1963. By Dennis Ritchie. Does basic computation.
  • ML

    Invented by Robin Milner and others in the early 1970s. It has automatic memory, pattern matching, exception handling, and first-class functions. ML stands for "metalanguage".
  • SQL

    Invented by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce. Made in the early 1970s. Language elements are clauses, expressions, predicates, queries, and statements.
  • ADA

    Developed by a High Order Language Working Group. Functions: Modularity Mechanisms, run-time checking, strong typing generics, exception handling, parallel processing. Named after Ada Lovelace, which was the first computer programmer.
  • C++

    Designed at Bell Laboratories. Main uses are software engineering and graphics.
  • Python

    It was made in the late 1980s by Guido van Rossum in the Netherlands. It has a full garbage collector.
  • Visual Basic

    Alan Cooper developed the drag and drop design. Programmers are able to make not only simple applications, but also complex applications.
  • JAVA

    Invented James Gosling. It is object oriented, secure, portable, and dynamic. The name JAVA came from java coffee because they said it would be used in large quantities by language prorammers.
  • PHP

    Invented by Rasmus Lerdorf. Includes a command-line interface capability. First "PHP" stood for "Personal Home Page" but then developed to mean "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor".
  • Delphi

    It was developed by Borland. It has VCL (Visual Component Library). It also has compiled code and is object oriented.
  • Javascript

    Released by netscape. Clients may interact with the user, control the browser, communicate, and change the document.