Programming

Programming Languages Timeline

By duncanhemminger

  • Invention of Plankalkul

    Creatorf was Konrad Zuse. Major focus of the language was engineering.

  • Invention of MATH-MATIC

    Created by Charles Katz. Made as in imporvment of FORTRAN

  • Invention of Fortran

    Created by John Backus. This programming language was made to do math and scientific calculations.

  • Invention of LISP

    Created by John McCarthy

  • Invention of COBOL

    Main author was Grace Hopper. COBOL stands for COmmon Business Oriented Language

  • Invetnion of RPG

    A program language made by IBM to serve business purposes.

  • Invention of BASIC

    Made by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz. BASIC stands for Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

  • Invention of LOGO

    Invented by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert. Purpose was to be a functional programming language that was derived from LISP

  • Invention of B

    Made in Bell Labs by Ken Thompson. This program was later suceeded by C.

  • Invention of PASCAL

    Made by Niklaus Wirth. Small but effecient language.

  • C replaces B

    Made by Dennis Ritchie. This language was an advancement from the programming language B.

  • Invention of ML

    Createad by Robin Milner. ML stands for metalanguage

  • Invention of SQL

    Created by Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce. SQL stands for Structured Query Language

  • Invention of ADA

    Made by Jean Ichbiah. An advanced form of Pascal

  • Invention of C++

    Made by Bjarne Stroustrup. It is an enhancement to the C programming language.

  • Invention of Delphi

  • Invention of Python

    Made by Guido van Rossum. Biggest difference with Python is that it stressed the importance of being able to read code, even for beginner programmers.

  • Invention of Visual Basic

    Created by Miscrosoft. Made for beginner programmers because it is easy to learn and understand compared to other languages.

  • Invention of PHP

    Created by Rasmus Lerdorf. Made to be used in many websites.

  • Invention of JAVA

    Main designer was James Gosling. A big advancement Java had was that it was able to write a program on one computer and do the same program on another, without having to recompile the program.

  • Invention of JavaScript

    Designed by Brandon Eich. Focus of this program was altering web pages.