Programming languages timeline

By jadenm
  • Plankalkul

    Plankalkul stands for "Plan Calculus". It was developed by Konrad Zuse designed for engineering purposes.
  • MATH-MATIC

    MATH-MATIC is the marketing name for the Algebra Translator 2 compiler, an early programming language for the UNVAC I and UNVAC II. Developed by a team led by Charles Katz under the direction of Grace Hopper. Designed by Remington Rand.
  • Fortran

    Originally developed by IBM for scientific and engineering applications.
  • Lisp

    Lisp created in 1958 was intended for practical mathematical computations but later became a popular language for artificial intelligence research.
  • RPG

    A high level language made for business application developed by IBM.
  • COBOL

    COBOL was designed for business use developed by CODASYL.
  • BASIC

    BASIC stands for Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. BASIC was originally designed for educational purposes for college students without a mathematical background to delve into writing computer software.
  • LOGO

    LOGO is an educational programming language designed in 1967 by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon.
  • PASCAL

    PASCAL (named after Blake Pascal) was released in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth used to encourage good programming practices.
  • B

    B was designed and developed by Ken Thompson and developed by Dennis Ritchie. B was designed for recursive, non-numeric, and machine-independent software.
  • C

    Designed and developed by Dennis Ritchie. C is a general-purpose programming language.
  • ML

    ML stands for "Meta language". It's a general-purpose functional language developed by Robin Miner and others at the University of Edinburgh
  • SQL

    SQL stands for "Structured Query Language" developed by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce in the early 1970s
  • ADA

    Ada was named after Ada Lovelace (credited for being the first programmer). Designed by a team led by Jean Ichbiah of CII Honeywell Bull
  • C++

    Designed by Bjarne Stroustrup.
  • Visual Basic

    Visual Basic is a 3rd gen. event-driven programming language and IDE developed by Microsoft first appeared in 1991.
  • Java

    Java is a general-purpose programming language. James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, and Patrick Naughton initiated the Java language project in June 1991.
  • Python

    Python is a general-purpose high level programming language created by Guido van Rossum in 1991.
  • PHP

    PHP is a server-side scripting language designed for web development created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994.
  • Delphi

    Delphi is a programming language developed by Borland originally intended to be an IDE to allow programmers to write code and manage applications more efficiently.
  • JavaScript

    JavaScript is a weakly-typed, dynamic interpreted programming language designed by Brendan Eich in 1995.