Programming Languages Timeline

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  • ADA

    First Appeared: 1980
    Developed by: High Order Language Working Group (HOWLG)
    Became an ANSI standard in 1983.
    It was made since the Department of Defense (DoD) was concerned about the programming languages it was using. Most of them were hardware-dependent and hired HOWLG to develop it. ADA was named after Ada Lovelace. Is reliable for large computers as it was fast.

  • Plankalkul

    First Appeared: 1948
    Designed by: Konrad Zuse
    Created by Germans during the war for the computer "Z3" and was one of the first high-level language but was not put into use until 50 years later during 1998.

  • Fortran

    First Appeared: 1955
    Designed and Developed by: John Backus with the help of IBM
    The name Fortran comes from "Formula Translation" it's mainly used for fast calculations and computation and mainly used for science.

  • MATH-MATIC

    First Appeared: 1957
    Designed by: Remington
    Helped developed by a team ordered by Grace Hopper. Originally made for the UNIVAC I and II.

  • Lisp

    First Appeared: 1958
    Designed by: John McCarthy and developed by Steve Russel, Timothy P. Hart, and Mike Levin
    Second oldest programming language. Was created for math uses

  • COBOL

    First Appeared: 1959
    Designed by: Grace Hopper, Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E Sammet, William Selden, and Gertrude Tierney.
    Developed by: CODASYL, ANSI, ISO
    COBOL programming language was made for business use. COBOL is still used on businesses and governments to this day.

  • RPG

    First Appeared: 1959 and created by IBM
    RPG stands for Report Program Generator. It was created during the time hole punch cards were used and usually involved having the computer generate information about files and other data.

  • BASIC

    First Appeared: May 1, 1964
    Designed by: John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz
    BASIC was first made to allow students of Dartmouth College to create programs for the Dartmouth Time-Sharing system with less math work. It involved using keyboards and a computer's terminal. It is also updated and currently used by microsoft products

  • LOGO

    First Appeared: 1967
    Developed by: Wally Feurzig and Seymour Papert

  • B

    First Appeared: 1969
    Developed by: Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson
    The B language is based on BCPL. Ken Thompson developed this to try to fix BCPL and try to have it fit in a computer's memory capacity as well as changing layouts and using more white space.

  • PASCAL

    First Appeared: 1970
    Designed by Niclaus Wirth
    Has been used for designing computer games and also for teaching students about structured programming.

  • C

    C
    First appeared 1972
    Designed by Dennis Ritchie
    Developed by Dennis Ritchie and Bell Labs
    It was created to re-implement UNIX OS

  • ML

    First Appeared: 1973
    Developed by the University of Edenburgh and Robin Milner
    Stands for Meta Language. Used for manipulating other programs.

  • SQL

    Developed by: Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce
    SQL stands for Structure Query Language. It was created for easy use. SQL communicates with a data base some examples are retrieving data or uploading data to be saved in a data base.

  • C++

    C++
    First Appeared: 1983
    Designed and created by: Bjarne Stroustrup
    The language was more into system programming. Stroustrup made C++ to enhance C

  • Python

    Python
    First appeared 1991
    Made by Guido van Rossum
    Python was made to be a readable language with a clean layout that was easily readable.

  • Visual Basic

    First Appeared: 1991
    Developed By: Microsoft
    Is a programming language that is user friendly and made for beginner programmers. Can be used to make both simple and complex programs.

  • PHP

    First Appeared: 1995
    Designed by: Ramsus Lerdford
    Developed by: Zend Technologies
    PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor. It is mostly server-sided and used for HTML

  • Delphi

    First Appeared: 1995
    Still being developed to this day
    Used for creating windows applications

  • JavaScript

    First Appeared: May 23, 1995
    Designed by: Brendan Eich
    JavaScript was made to enhance web browser features and is used on other non web based applications such as PDF Documents.

  • Java

    First Appeared: 1995
    Designed by: James Gosling
    Java was originally made for TV. James Gosling designed Java to look similar to C and C++ and was done so other C and C++ programmers can easily read the code. It has many uses and are also for interactive web pages and web applications.