Programming Languages

Plankalkül

Sep 7, 1945

Plankalkül was designed by Konrad Zuse in 1945 after he moved out of Berlin after World War II. http://www.zib.de/zuse/Inhalt/Programme/Plankalkuel/Plankalkuel-Report/Plankalkuel-Report.htm

FORTRAN

Sep 7, 1950

Created in the early 1950s by John Backus and stands for FORmula TRANslation. It was designed for scientists and engineers and is still in use. http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/fortran/fortran1.html

MATH-MATIC

Sep 7, 1957

MATH-MATIC was the name of the A-0 Compiler designed by Grace Hopper. Later she designed the A-3 and AT-3 which had a mathematical "flavor" to them and where advertised as MATH-MATIC. http://www2.lv.psu.edu/ojj/courses/ist-240/reports/spring2001/fa-cb-bc-kf/1951-1970.html

RPG

Sep 7, 1959

It was developed in 1959 by IBM to replicate punched card processing. Stands for Report Program Generator. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_RPG

COBOL

Sep 7, 1960

COBOL was created in the kate 1950s and early 1960s by the team at CODASYL, led by Grace Hopper. COmmon Busines Oriented Language http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/C/COBOL.html

Lisp

Sep 7, 1960

Created in 1960 by John McCarthy as a proof that by using simple operators and instructions, you can design a whole programming language. Lisp stands for LISt Processing. http://www.paulgraham.com/rootsoflisp.html

BASIC

May 1, 1964

BASIC was created by John G. Kemeny and Professor Thomas Kurtz created the language for use with the General Electric GE-225 mainframe at Dathmouth University. BASIC stands for "Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code." The first two programs in BASIC were written on May 1, 1964. http://cis-alumni.org/BASIC.html

LOGO

Sep 7, 1967

LOGO was created in 1967 by Seymour Papert and was designed as a tool for learning. http://el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/logo/index.html

B

Sep 6, 1969

Created in 1969 by D. M. Ritchie and K. L. Thompson Created primarily for non-numeric applications such as system programming. http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/bintro.html

PASCAL

Sep 7, 1970

PASCAL was created by Niklaus Wirth in 1970 to help teach a systemmatic way of programming and design a language whose implementations are reliable across the computers of that time. It was named after the French mathematician Blaise Pascal. http://pascal-central.com/ppl/index.html#Origins

C

Sep 7, 1973

The essentials of modern C were completed in 1973. Created by Dennis M. Ritchie for use with the early Unix system. http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html

ML

Sep 7, 1973

ML was developed by Robin Milner in 1973 and designed for proofs. ML stands for metalanguage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ML_(programming_language)

Ada

Sep 6, 1977

Developed in the late 70s by a team led by Dr. Jean Ichbiah. Created for programs where reliability and efficiency are essential. The name was chosen to honor Augusta Ada Lovelace for her work with Charles Babbage. http://www.adacore.com/adaanswers/about/ada

C++

Sep 7, 1983

C++ was started in 1979 (C with classes), then renamed to C++ in 1983. Created by Bjarne Stroustrup. C++ was named after C, and the ++ was added because of the increment operator. http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#invention

SQL

Sep 7, 1986

SQL stands for Structured Query Language and was designed in 1986 to manage data held in databases. Designed by Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL

Python

Sep 7, 1989

Python was developed in the late 1980s by Guido van Rossum to get rid of some of the problems he had with ABC. http://www.artima.com/intv/pythonP.html

Visual Basic

Sep 7, 1989

It was designed in 1989 as a fusion, requested by Bill Gates, between Ruby and Embedded Basic. http://www.forestmoon.com/BIRTHofVB/BIRTHofVB.html

Java

Sep 7, 1991

Java was created in 1991 by a group of Sun engineers, led by James Gosling, to extend the power of network computing to our daily lives. It officially started its use in Netscape Navigator in 1995. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/overview/javahistory-index-198355.html

PHP

Sep 7, 1993

PHP was created in 1993 by Rasmus Lerdorf. The very first version he created to avoid repition in writing his programs. PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor. http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3298.html
http://php.net/manual/en/faq.general.php

JavaScript

May 7, 1995

In May 1995, JavaScript was created by Brendan Eich in 10 days and is used to provide functionality to websites. http://www.w3.org/community/webed/wiki/A_Short_History_of_JavaScript

Delphi

Sep 7, 1995

Created in 1995 by Borland. Extended Borland's PASCAL by including OOP and having a form-based approach. http://delphi.about.com/cs/azindex/a/dhistory_2.htm