Programming Languages Timeline

Plankalkül

Dec 6, 1948

Developed by Konrad Zuse, it was the first high-level programming language designed for engineering purposes.

Fortran

Oct 15, 1956

Originally developed by IBM for scientific and engineering applications, it is a general purpose, imperitive programming language suited to numeric computation and scientific computing.

MATH-MATIC

Feb 1, 1957

Developed by Charles Katz in 1957, it was an early computer programming language for the UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II. It was intended to be an improvement to Fortran.

Lisp

Feb 1, 1958

Invented by John McCarthy in 1958 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, it is a famly of computer programming languages.

RPG

Feb 1, 1959

Developed by IBM, it is a high-level programming language for buisness applications.

COBOL

Apr 8, 1959

Designed by Grace Hopper, it's primary purpose was for business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments.

BASIC

Feb 1, 1964

Designed by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz at Dartmouth College. It is a family of general purpose, high-level programming languages originally created to provid computer access to non-science students.

LOGO

Feb 1, 1967

Invented by Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon. It is a multi-paradigm computer programming language used in education. It is an adaptation and dialect of Lisp.

Pascal

Feb 1, 1970

Designed by Niklaus Wirth, it is an influential imperitive and procedural programming language. It was intended to encourage good practices using a structured programming and data structuring.

C Language

Feb 1, 1972

Developed by Dennis Ritcher at AT&T Bell Labs is a general purpose programming language that superseded the B Language.

ML Language

Feb 1, 1973

A general-purpose functional programming language developed by Robin Milner & others at the University of Edinburgh. It was created to develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover.

SQL Language

Feb 1, 1974

Developed by ISO. It is a special purpose programming language designed for managing data in relational database management systems.

ADA Language

Feb 1, 1977

It is a structured, statically typed, imperative, wide-spectrum, and object-oriented high-level computer programming language, extended from Pascal and other languages. Designed by Jean Ichbiah of CII Honeywell Bull. It is named after Ada Lovelace, a person credited as being the first computer programmer.

C++ Language

Dec 1, 1983

Is a statically typed, free form, multi paradigm, compiled, general purpose programming language created by Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Labs. It is a combination of high-level and low-level language features. It is an enchancement to the C Language.

Python Language

Feb 1, 1991

A general purpose, high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. It was developed by Python Software Foundation.

Visual Basic

May 1, 1991

Is a third-generation event driven programming language and intergrated development enviornment. Developed by Microsoft in 1991, it was first created for it's COM programming model.

Java Script Language

Dec 1, 1994

Originaly developed by Netscape Communications Corporation, it is an open source client-side scripting language commonly implemented as part of a web browser to create enchanced user interface and dynamic websites.

Delphi Language

Feb 1, 1995

Developed by Borland, it was a descendant of Turbo Pascal. It is native code compiler that ran under Window v 3.1 and Windows '95. It is similarly Object Pascal with similar tools found in Microsoft Visual Basic 3.0.

Java Language

Jun 1, 1995

Is a general purpose, concurrent, class-based, object-oriented computer programming language developed by James Gosling and Sun Microsystems. It was designed to have as few implementation dependents as possible.

PHP Language

Jun 8, 1995

Is an open source server-side scripting language developed by Rasmus Lerdorf. It was designed for web development.