Programming Languages Timeline

By Kevin Corina

  • Plankalkul (Plan Calculus)

    Year This Language Was Developed: 1948
    Who Developed This Language: Zonrad Zuse
    Primary Purpose or Use: Solving and dealing with mathmatic algorithms

  • Fortran (FORmula TRANslating)

    Year This Language Was Developed:1952-1957
    Who Developed This Language: Richard Goldberg,Sheldon F. Best, Harlan Harrick, Peter Sheridan, Roy Nutt, Rovert Nelson, Irving Ziller, Lois Haibt, and David Sayre
    Primary Purpose or Use: Mathmatica and Scientific usage

  • MATH-MATIC

    Year This Language Was Developed:1957
    Who Developed This Language: a group , whos leader was Charles Katz
    Primary Purpose or Use: meant to be an upgrade over FORTRAN

  • Lisp (LISt Processing)

    Year This Language Was Developed:1959
    Who Developed This Language:John McCarthy
    Primary Purpose or Use: Mathmatica and AI research

  • COBOL (COmmon Business-Oriented Language)

    Year This Language Was Developed:1959
    Who Developed This Language:A large and diverse group contributed to its making, but Grace Hopper is credited to be the "Mother of Cobol"
    Primary Purpose or Use: Bussiness and Finance operation

  • RPG (Report Program Generator)

    Year This Language Was Developed:1959
    Who Developed This Language: IBM
    Primary Purpose or Use: Bussiness Applications

  • BASIC (Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code)

    Year This Language Was Developed:1964
    Who Developed This Language: John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz
    Primary Purpose or Use: Made to bring computer programming more accessable to other fields that didnt specialize in coding.

  • LOGO (Programming Language)

    Year This Language Was Developed:1967
    Who Developed This Language:Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert
    Primary Purpose or Use: Education

  • B

    Year This Language Was Developed: 1969
    Who Developed This Language: Ken Thompson
    Primary Purpose or Use: Used on many older computers, also layed some of the foundation for future C languages

  • C

    Year This Language Was Developed:1969-1973
    Who Developed This Language: Dennis Ritchie
    Primary Purpose or Use: Very popular language used in many devices, from XBoxes to computers running Microsoft operating systems.

  • PASCAL

    Year This Language Was Developed:1970
    Who Developed This Language: Niklaus Wirth
    Primary Purpose or Use: made to teach structured programming

  • ML (MetaLanguage)

    Year This Language Was Developed:1973
    Who Developed This Language:Robin Milner and people from the University of Edinburgh
    Primary Purpose or Use: Handleing mathmatical algorithms

  • SQL (Structural Query Language)

    Year This Language Was Developed:1974
    Who Developed This Language: Donald D. Chamberlain and Raymond F. Boyce
    Primary Purpose or Use: Use in database management

  • ADA

    Year This Language Was Developed:1975
    Who Developed This Language: HOLWG (High Order Language Working Group) notably including Edsger W. Dijkstra, Charles Antony Richard Hoare, and Niklaus Wirth.
    Primary Purpose or Use: Crafted for the Department Of Defense's millitiary operations, but was also later used for high risk fields including air traffic control.

  • C++

    Year This Language Was Developed:1979
    Who Developed This Language:Bjarne Stroustrap
    Primary Purpose or Use: Hardware Design

  • Delphi (Object Pascal...?)

    Year This Language Was Developed:1985-1986
    Who Developed This Language:Larry Tesler Niklaus Wirth
    Primary Purpose or Use: Built to support the Macintosh Application Framework

  • Python

    Year This Language Was Developed:1991
    Who Developed This Language:Guido Van Rossum
    Primary Purpose or Use: Scripting purposes

  • Visual Basic

    Year This Language Was Developed: 1991
    Who Developed This Language: Alan Cooper
    Primary Purpose or Use: Used as an introductory language, as well as scripting

  • Java

    Year This Language Was Developed:1991-1995
    Who Developed This Language:James Gosling,Mike Sheridan, Patrick Naughton
    Primary Purpose or Use: intended for interactive television, but adapted to be usable almost anywhere with Java installed

  • Javascript

    Year This Language Was Developed: 1995
    Who Developed This Language:Brendan Eich
    Primary Purpose or Use: handleing User - Web application interactions

  • PHP (Hypertext Preprocesser)

    Year This Language Was Developed:1995
    Who Developed This Language:Rasmus Lerdorf and "The PHP group"
    Primary Purpose or Use: Web development