Programming languages history

By Mario15gl

  • Plankalkul

    Plankalkul
    Invented by Konrad Zuse. It was created for engineering purposes. The word Plankalkul comes from "Plan Calculus".

  • Fortran

    Fortran
    Developed by John Backus and IBM. It was created for for scientific and engineering applications. The name was derived from formula translation.

  • MATH-MATIC

    MATH-MATIC
    Invented by Remington Rand. It provided algebraic-style expressions and floating-point arithmetic.

  • Lisp

    Lisp
    John McCarthy. Lisp was originally created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs. It was first called LISP.

  • COBOL

    COBOL
    Developed by CODASYL. It was created as an effort to create a portable programming language for data processing. COBOL is an acronym for common business-oriented language.

  • RPG

    RPG
    Invented by IBM. Created to be a Report Program Generator.

  • BASIC

    BASIC
    Invented by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz. It was created for people that didn't have much knowledge of programming. BASIC means Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

  • LOGO

    LOGO
    Invented by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon. The language was conceived to teach concepts of programming related to Lisp. The name was derived from Greek.

  • B

    B
    Invented by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. B was designed for recursive, non-numeric, machine independent applications, such as system and language software. Named after Bon, another programming language.

  • Pascal

    Pascal
    Invented by Niklaus Wirth. It was made as an efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring. It was named after Blaise Pascal.

  • C

    C
    Invented by Dennis Ritchie. It was created to provide low level access to memory and to not require run time support. The letter doesn't have any significance.

  • ML

    ML
    Invented by Robin Milner. It provides pattern matching for function arguments. It has roots in Lisp, and has been characterized as "Lisp with types".

  • SQL

    SQL
    Invented by Donald D. Chamberlin Raymond F. Boyce. SQL was one of the first commercial languages. The acronym SEQUEL was changed into SQL.

  • ADA

    ADA
    Invented by Jean Ichbiah. It was made to supersede over 450 programming languages used by the DoD. Ada was named after Ada Lovelace, the first programmer.

  • C++

    C++
    Invented by Bjarne Stroustrup. It was created as an expansion of the language C becuase Stroustrup wanted a more flexible version. C++ was first called C with classes.

  • Python

    Python
    Invented by Guido van Rossum. It allows allows programmers to express concepts in fewer lines of code from other languages. The author chose Python as the title for his "project"

  • Visual Basic

    Visual Basic
    Invented by Microsoft. Microsoft intended Visual Basic to be relatively easy to learn and use. The name has basic in it because it is intended to be used for learning.

  • Delphi

    Delphi
    Developed by Embarcadero Technologies. It was created as a rapid application development tool for Windows as the successor of Turbo Pascal.Danny Thorpe suggested the name in reference to the Oracle at Delphi.

  • Java

    Java
    Designed by James Gosling. It is intended to let application developers "write once, run anywhere". It was first called Oak.

  • Javascript

    Javascript
    Invented by Brendan Eich. Initially only implemented client-side in web browsers. It was called LiveScript but was then renamed.

  • PHP

    PHP
    Invented by Rasmus Lerdorf. It was created for web development and as a general purpose programming language. PHP is for Personal Home Page.