Programming Languages

Plankalkül

Sep 28, 1948

Plankalkül (German for "Plan Calculus") is a programming language designed for engineering purposes by Konrad Zuse between 1943 and 1945.

Fortran

Sep 28, 1957

Fortran (previously FORTRAN, derived from Formula Translating System) is a general-purpose, imperative programming language that is especially made for numeric computation and scientific computing.

MATH-MATIC

Sep 28, 1957

MATH-MATIC is the marketing name for the AT-3 compiler, an early programming language for the UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II.

Lisp

Sep 28, 1958

Lisp (historically, LISP) is a family of computer programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized Polish prefix notation.

COBOL

Sep 28, 1959

COBOL, an acronym for common business-oriented language, is a compiled English-like computer programming language designed for business use

RPG

Sep 28, 1959

RPG is a high-level programming language (HLL) for business applications. RPG stands for Report Program Generator, not Role-Playing Game.

BASIC

Sep 28, 1964

BASIC (an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages which is easy to use

LOGO

Sep 28, 1967

Logo is an educational programming language, designed in 1967 by Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon

B

Jan 1, 1969

B is a programming language developed at Bell Labs circa 1969. It is the work of Ken Thompson with Dennis Ritchie.

Pascal

Sep 28, 1970

Pascal is a historically influential imperative and procedural programming language, designed in 1968–1969 and published in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth as a small and efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.

C

Sep 28, 1972

C was originally developed by Dennis Ritchie between 1969 and 1973 at AT&T Bell Labs, and used to re-implement the Unix operating system

ML

Sep 28, 1973

ML is a general-purpose functional programming language developed by Robin Milner and others in the early 1970s at the University of Edinburgh, whose syntax is inspired by ISWIM. Historically, ML stands for metalanguage.

SQL

Sep 28, 1974

SQL, or Structured Query Language, is a special-purpose programming language designed for managing data held in a relational database management system (RDBMS), or for stream processing in a relational data stream management system (RDSMS).

ADA

Jan 1, 1980

Ada was originally designed by a team led by Jean Ichbiah of CII Honeywell Bull under contract to the United States Department of Defense (DoD) from 1977 to 1983 to supersede the hundreds of programming languages then used by the DoD

C++

Sep 28, 1983

C++ is a general-purpose programming language.

Python

Sep 28, 1991

Python is a widely used general-purpose, high-level programming language.Its design improves code readability, and its syntax allows programmers to code in fewer lines of code than would be possible in languages such as C++ or Java.

Visual Basic

Sep 28, 1991

Visual Basic is a legacy third-generation event-driven programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft for its COM programming model first released in 1991.

PHP

Sep 28, 1995

PHP is a server-side scripting language designed for web development but also used as a general-purpose programming language.

Delphi

Sep 28, 1995

Embarcadero Delphi is an integrated development environment (IDE) for console, desktop graphical, web, and mobile applications.

Java

Sep 28, 1995

Java is a general-purpose computer programming language that is concurrent, class-based, object-oriented, and specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible.

JavaScript

Sep 28, 1995

JavaScript is a high level, dynamic, untyped, and interpreted programming language.