Programming Languages Timeline

Plankalkül

Jan 31, 1948

Developed by Konrad Zuse. First high-level non-von Neumann programming language to be designed for a computer. Plankalkül means "formal system for planning"

Programming Languages

Period: Jan 31, 1948 to Jan 31, 1995

Fortran

Jan 31, 1957

Developed by John Backus. Programmed as a language that was easy to learn and understand. Stands for Formula Translating (name is a blend of these two words).

MATH-MATIC

Jun 29, 1957

 Developed by Charles Katz. Used as the marketing name for the AT-3 compiler.

Lisp

Jan 31, 1958

Developed by John McCarthy. Created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs

COBOL

Jan 31, 1959

Primarily designed by Grace Hopper. Used in business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments. Stands for Common Business Oriented Language

RPG

Jan 31, 1959

Developed by IBM. Intended for use in business applications. Stands for Report Program Generator.

BASIC

Jan 28, 1964

Developed by John George Kemeny andThomas Eugene Kurtz. Used as a general-purpose computer programming language that emphasizes the ease of use. Stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.

LOGO

Jan 31, 1967

Developed by a team consisting of Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon. Originally conceived and written as a functional programming language, and drove a mechanical turtle as an output device

B

Jan 1, 1969

Developed by Ken Thompson. Primarily for non-numeric applications such as system programming.

PASCAL

Jan 31, 1970

Developed by Niklaus Wirth. Intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.

C

Jan 31, 1972

Developed by Dennis Ritchie. Provides typical machine instructions, which resulted in lasting for quite some time due to applications having been formerly coded in assembly language.

ML

Jan 31, 1973

Developed by Robin Milner. Referred to as an impure functional language, because it encapsulates side-effects, unlike purely functional programming languages. Stands for MetaLanguage

SQL

Jan 31, 1974

Developed by Donald D. Chamberlin, Raymond F. Boyce. Designed for managing data in relational database management systems (RDBMS). Stands for Structured Query Language.

C++

Jan 31, 1983

Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup. Basically a enhancement to the C programming language, adding classes, virtual functions, etc.
Originally was going to be named C with Classes, but was changed to C++

ADA

Feb 11, 1983

Developed by a team led by Jean Ichbiah of CII Honeywell Bull. This programming language was originally targeted at embedded and real-time systems. The name of the language was inspired by Ada Lovelace.

Python

Jan 31, 1991

Developed by Guido van Rossum. Emphasizes code readability.

Visual Basic

Jul 31, 1991

Developed by Microsoft. Designed to be relatively easy to learn and use. Enables the rapid application development (RAD) of graphical user interface (GUI) applications, access to databases using Data Access Objects, Remote Data Objects, or ActiveX Data Objects, and creation of ActiveX controls and objects.
*This program is also used in our Computer Programming I class! :D

Javascript

Mar 31, 1994

Developed by Brendan Eich. Used as part of a web browser in order to create enhanced user interfaces and dynamic websites.

Delphi

Jan 31, 1995

Developed by Borland. A native code compiler that helps programming for Windows easier.

Java

Jan 31, 1995

Developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems. Specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible

PHP

Jan 31, 1995

Developed byRasmus Lerdorf. Designed for Web development to produce dynamic Web pages. Originally stood for Personal Home Page, but now stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor