Programming Languages Timeline

  • Plankalkul

    Designed by Konrad Zuse
    Plankalkul means "Plan Calculus"
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    Programming Languages Timeline

  • Fortran

    Fortran was made by John Backus
    The word Fortran is derived from the phrase "Formula Translation"
  • MATH-MATIC

    Designed by Remington Rand
  • Lisp

    Lisp was designed by John McCarthy
  • COBOL

    COBOL was designed by Howard Bromberg.
    COBOL is an acronym for "common business-oriented language"
  • RPG

    Designed by IBM
    RPG stands for Report Program Generator
  • BASIC

    BASIC was made by John G. Kemeny. I couldn't find anything on why it was named BASIC, as it says it's a pretty complicated programming language.
  • Logo

    Logo was designed by Wally Feurzeig
    Logo is named after the word in greek, which means word or thought.
  • B

    B Language was developed by Ken Thompson, at Bell Labs.
  • PASCAL

    Designed by Niklaus Wirth
    PASCAL was named after the mathematician, Blaise Pascal
  • C

    C Language was created by Dennis Ritchie
  • ML

    ML was designed by Robin Milner
    ML stands for "Meta Language"
  • SQL

    Designed by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce
    SQL means Structured Query Language
  • ADA

    ADA was made by Jean Ichbiah. It was named after Ada Lovelance, who is "The First Computer Programmer"
  • C++

    C++ was designed by Bjarne Stroustrup.
  • Python

    Designed by Guido van Rossum
  • Visual Basic

    Developed by Microsoft
  • DELPHI

    DELPHI was created by Anders Hejlsberg
  • Java

    Java was designed by James Gosling
  • JavaScript

    JavaScript was designed by Brendan Eich
  • PHP

    Designed by Rasmus Lerdorf
    PHP is the shortened version of "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor"