Programming Languages Timeline

  • Plankulkul

    Plankkulkul was invented by Konrad Zuse in 1948. It was the first high-level non-von Nuemann computer-designed programming language. It was designed for engineering purposes .
  • PHP

    PHP us an acronym for Hypertext Preprocessor. This server-side scripting language is for web devlopment and general use. This langauge was created in 1995 by Rasmus Lerdorf.
  • LISP

    This program was invented by John McCarthy with the purpose of easy manipulation of data strings. LISP is an acronym and stands for List Processing.
  • MATH-MATIC

    This programming lanuage was an imporvement of FORTRAM which was invented by Charles Katz.
  • COBOL

    This lanuage was designed by CODASYL to be used for business and financial aid by resolving issues. It stands for common Business oriented Language.
  • FORTRAN

    FORTRAN was created in 1959 by IBM and John Backus. It was created for Scientic and enegineering purposes. FORTAN is an acronym for formula translation.
  • RPG

    RPG is an acronym for Report Program Generator. It was invented by IBM and is a high level programming language for business purpose.
  • BASIC

    BASIC was designed by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz at Dartmouth College in NH (New Hampshire). It is a general purpose high level programming system. Name stands for Beginner's all purpose symbolic instruction code..
  • LOGO

    LOGO was invented by Daniel Bobrow, Symour Papert and Wally Feurzeig. The prupose was education (teach programming concepts in LISP) and graphics.
  • B

    This program was invented at Bell Labs by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thomposon. The purpose of the program was for non-numeric, machine independent applications.
  • Pascal

    Pascal was invented bu Niklaus Wirth. Purpose of the program is enhance a programmers good programming practices wuth datat structuring.
  • C

    This was invented by Dennis Ritchie and Bell Labs to be used in used in applications that had formerly been coded in assembly language.
  • ML

    Machine Language, ML, was invented by Robin Milner and Universirt of Edinburgh. The program was made for calculus purposes and develop proofs and prove theorems.
  • SQL

    This program was made by Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce with the purpose of mainting data held in a realational db.
  • ADA

    ADA was created by Jean Ichbiah of CII honeywell. ADA's purpose is to improve maintainability and safety.
  • C++

    C++ was created by Bjarne Stroustrup. The purpose of the program was for systems programming with performance and efficiency.
  • Python

    Python was invented by Guido Rossum. It is a general purpose high level programming language with an emphasis on code reading.
  • Visual Basic

    Visual Basic was invented by microsoft in 1991. It isinteneded to be easy to learn and use. It is names Visual Basic becuase the program evolved/derived from BASIC.
  • JAVA

    JAVA was invnted by Sun Microsystems and James Gosling. It is an object oriented language.
  • JavaScript

    Brendan Eich invented JavaScript. This was a clinet-side web application.
  • Delphi

    Delphi was created by Borland in 1995 for console. dektop graphics mobiel applications and web.