Programming Languages History

  • Plankalkul

    Was created by Konrad Zuse. Plankalkul stands for Plan Calculus.
  • Fortran

    Was created by IBM & John Backus. It stands for Formula Translator
  • MATH-MATIC

    Was created by Remington Rand
  • RPG

    Was created by IBM. RPG stands for Report Program Generator
  • COBOL

    Was created by Grace Murray Hopper in December. COBOL stands for Common Business-Oriented Language.
  • Lisp

    Was created by John McCarthy. Lisp stands for List Processing
  • BASIC

    Was created by John G. Kemeny & Thomas E. Kurtz. BASIC stands for Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
  • LOGO

    Was created by Wally Feurzeig, Cynthia Solomon & Seymour Papert. LOGO stands for Logic Oriented Graphic Oriented
  • B

    Was created by Ken Thompson
  • PASCAL

    Was created by Niklaus Wirth
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    SQL

    Was created by Donald D. Chamberlin & Raymond F. Boyce in the 1970's. SQL stands for Structured Query Language
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    ML

    Was created by Robin Milner in the 1970's. ML stand for Machine Learning
  • C

    Was created by Dennis Ritchie
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    ADA

    Was created by Jean Ichbiah in the 1980's
  • Python

    was created by Guido van Rossum
  • Java

    Was created by James Gosling
  • Visual Basic

    Was created by Alan Cooper
  • PHP

    Was created by Rasmus Lerdorf. PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor
  • Delphi

    Was created by Borland
  • JavaScript

    Was created by Brendan Eich
  • C++

    Was created by Bjarne Stroustrup