Programming Languages

  • Plankalkul

    1948 by Konrad Zuse, for engineering.
  • MATH-MATIC

    1957 by Charles Katz for UNIVAC 1 and 2
  • Fortran

    1956 by John Backus made for math and scientific computing.
  • Lisp

    1958 by John McCarthy used for mathematics
  • COBOL

    1959 by Jean Sammet, Howard Bromberg, Gertrude Tierney, and William Selden for businesses to use. Stands for Common Business-Oriented Language.
  • RPG

    1959 by IBM for applications. Stands for Report Program Generator.
  • BASIC

    1964 by John Kemeny and Thomas E. it was supposed to make it simple to learn. Stands for Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
  • LOGO

    1967 by Seymour and Wally it was an educational language.
  • B

    1969 by AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories (Ken Thompson). It was easier to use and more convenient than Assembler, did non-machine dependent tasks.
  • C

    1970 by Dennis Ritchie, made systems software.
  • PASCAL

    1970 by Niklaus Wirth, it was made because it was supposed to be small and efficient.
  • ML

    1973 by Robin Milner used to develop proof in a theorem. Stands for Meta Language
  • SQL

    1974 made by Donald Chamberlin. It was used for managing data and communicated with the database. Stands for Structured Query Language.
  • C++

    1979 by Bjarne Stroustrup, used for desktops.
  • ADA

    1983 by Tucker Taft Jean Ichbiah. It was designed for large, long lived applications and embedded systems in particular. Named after first programmer used code for stability
  • Python

    1991 made by Guido Van Rossum it is a multi-function system.
  • Delphi

    1995 by Borland. It was a quick windows application development tool.
  • Java

    1995 made by James Gosling it’s a multi-function system, originally used for digital cable TV, but it is a Netscape Navigator Internet browser.
  • JavaScript

    1995 Made by Eich in 1995. Used for WWW (World Wide Web).
  • PHP

    1995 made by Rasmus Lerdorf. Used for sever side scripting and web development. Stands for Personal Home Page
  • Visual Basic

    1998 made by Microsoft. Used to make applications quicker.