Programming Languages Timeline

  • Plankalkul

    Konrad Zuse created it, designed for a programming language designed for engineering purposes, Plan Calculus.
  • Fortran

    John Backus created it, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing, derived from Formula Translating System.
  • Math-Matic

    Charles Katz created it, designed to improve Fortran, just Math-Matic.
  • Lisp

    John McCarthy created it, designed for family of computer programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized Polish prefix notation, just LISP.
  • COBOL

    I don't know creator, designed for business applications that run on large computers, Common Business Oriented Language.
  • RPG

    IBM created it, designed to high-level programming language (HLL) for business applications, Report Program Generator.
  • BASIC

    John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz founded it, deigned for high-level programming languages, Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
  • LOGO

    Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon created it, designed for educational purposes, just logo.
  • B

    Bell Labs and Ken Thompson founded it, designed for non-numeric, machine independent applications, derived from BCPL.
  • PASCAL

    Niklaus Wirth created it, designed to influential imperative and procedural programming language, just Pascal.
  • C

    Dennis Ritchie created it, designed for imperative computer programming languages, just the letter C.
  • ML

    Robin Milner & others at the University of Edinburgh created it, designed for functional programming language, just ML.
  • SQL

    Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce created it, designed for special-purpose programming language designed for managing data held in a relational database management system (RDBMS), Structured Query Language.
  • ADA

    Created by Dr. Jean Ichbiah at CII-Honeywell-Bull in France, desinged for large,long-live applications, and ADA was chosen in honor of Augusta Ada Lovelace because she helped Charles Babbage in the first program.
  • C++

    Bjarne Stroustrup created it, designed for imperative, object-oriented and generic programming languages, just C++.
  • Python

    Guido van Rossum created it, designed to high-level programming language, just Python.
  • Visual Basic

    Mircosoft created it, legacy third-generation event-driven programming language and integrated development environment (IDE), just Visual Basic.
  • Java

    Created by James Gosling and Sun Microsystems, computer programming language that is concurrent, class-based, and object-oriented, just Java.
  • Javascript

    Brendan Eich created it, designed for high level, dynamic, untyped, and interpreted programming language, derived from Java.
  • PHP

    Rasmus Lerdorf created it, designed to server-side scripting language designed for web development but also used as a general-purpose programming language, PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page,[5] it now stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.
  • Delphi

    Embarcadero Technologies created it, console, desktop graphical, web, and mobile applications, just Delphi.