Programming Languages

Plankalkul

Dec 31, 1948

Plankalkul was made by Konrad Zuse. It was designed for use in engineering.

Fortran

Dec 31, 1957

Fortran was created by John Backus. It was a general purpose programming language that was originally developed for scientific computing. Its name stands for Formula Translation.

MATH-MATIC

Dec 31, 1957

MATH-MATIC was created by Charles Katz. It was an early programming language that was used for the UNIVAC.

Lisp

Dec 31, 1958

Lisp was originally created by John McCarthy. It is the second oldest high level programming language.

RPG

Dec 31, 1959

RPG was created by IBM. It is a proprietary language of IBM. RPG stands for Report Program Generator.

BASIC

Dec 31, 1964

John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz created BASIC. It's was designed to be a simple programming language that anyone could use regardless of their knowlege of mathematics. BASIC is an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.

LOGO

Dec 1, 1967

LOGO was created by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert. It is an educational programming language that created line diagrams.

COBOL

Dec 31, 1968

COBOL was created by CODASYL. It is an English-like language designed for business use. COBOL is an acronym for Common Business Oriented Language.

B

Dec 31, 1969

B was created by Ken Thomson and Dennis Ritchie. It is a typeless language that was designed for recursive, machine independent applications.

PASCAL

Dec 31, 1970

PASCAL was created by Niklaus Wirth. It is a small programming language designed to encourage structured programming.

C

Dec 31, 1973

Dennis Richie created the C programming language. C is a general purpose programming language that is sometimes used to write operating systems since it is very similar to typical machine instructions.

ML

Dec 31, 1973

ML was created by Robin Miller. It was a general purpose programming language. ML stands for MetaLanguage.

ADA

Dec 31, 1977

ADA was created by Jean Ichbiah and his team under a contract by the US DoD. ADA is an object oriented high level programming language. Is named after Ada Lovelace

SQL

Jun 30, 1979

SQL was created by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce. It's a special purpose programming language that is used for managing data in a database. SQL stands for Structured Query Language.

C++

Dec 31, 1985

Bjarne Stroustrup created C++. It's an object oriented general purpose programming language.

Python

Dec 31, 1989

Python was created Guido van Rossum. It is a general purpose high level programming language.

Java

Jun 30, 1991

James Gosling is the creator of Java. Java is an object oriented language with roots in C++ and C.

Visual Basic

Dec 31, 1991

Visual Basic was created by Microsoft with the help of Alan Cooper and his team. It is an object oriented language that was based off of BASIC and was designed to be simple to learn.

PHP

Dec 31, 1994

PHP was made by Rasmus Lerdorf. It is designed for web development but is also used as a general purpose language. PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page but now it stands for PHP: Hypertext Processor.

JavaScript

May 23, 1995

JavaScript was developed by Brendan Eich. It is a high level language that is used in creating content for the world wide web.

Delphi

Apr 20, 2016

Delphi is currently under active development and is being developed by Embarcadero Technologies. The most current release is from April 20th. Delphi is a programming language and software development kit.