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Programming Languages Timeline

  • Plankalkul

    Developed by Konrad Zuse this was the first full-fledged copmuter programming language.
  • Lisp

    John McCarthy of MIT created Lisp so that he could process lists of data for an AI project
  • MATH-MATIC

    Math-matic was released by the Rand Corporation
  • COBOL

    Short for Common Business Oriented Language and was developed by the Conference on Data Systems Languages
  • Fortran

    Fortran was released by IBM and it provided support for procedural programming
  • RPG

    Developed by IBM and stands for Report Program Generator
  • BASIC

    BASIC is an acronym meaning Beginner's All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code and was created by John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtzas
  • LOGO

    LOGO was developed by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon to advance an AI project at MIT
  • B

    B was developed by AT&T for system development.
  • Pascal

    Designed by Prof. Niklaus Wirth and was a direct evolution of Algol
  • C

    C was a build off of the programming language B, by Dennis M. Ritchie, but now it was able to use Data types
  • ML

    Developed by Robin Milner it was the first language with a polymorphic type system
  • C++

    Bjarne Stroustrup developed C++ by taking C then adding object oriented programming to it
  • SQL

    SQL was designed by IBM to be used to store, manage, and query data and stands for Structured Query Language
  • ADA

    ADA was designed by a team led by Jean Ichbiah who was designing amore streamlined language for the US Department of Defense
  • Python

    Developed by CWI, Python was a direct build off of the language ABC
  • Visual Basic

    Developed by Tripod but later sold to Microsoft
  • PHP

    Rasmus Lerdorf created this language to track visits to his online resume
  • Delphi

    Developed by Borland to be able to build applications
  • Java

    Java was developed by "The Green Team" and was originally designed for use on televisions
  • Javascript

    Netscape Communications Corporation developed Javascript so that they could build a web browser to overcome the popular Mosaic browser