Programming Languages Timeline

  • Plankalkul

    Konrad Zuse
    Made for engineering purposes
  • Fortran

    IBM
    It was designed for scientists and engineers
  • MATH-MATIC

    Remington Rand
    an early programming language for the UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II
  • COBOL

    COmmon Business-Oriented Language
    Grace Hopper
    for business applications
  • RPG

    Report Program Generator
    IBM
    for business applications
  • Lisp

    list processing
    John McCarthy
    for easy manipulation of data strings
  • BASIC

    Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
    john g kemeny and thomas e kurtz
    a starting step for students to learn
  • LOGO

    Seymour Papert
    used for generating basic shapes using a turtle cursor
  • C

    Dennis Ritchie
    To make desktop applications
  • PASCAL

    Niklaus Wirth
    It was made to encourage good habits to programming
  • B

    BCPL
    Ken Thompson
    made for non numeric software, made for language purpose
  • ML

    Standard Meta Language
    Robin Milner
    is a general-purpose, modular, functional programming language
  • SQL

    Structured Query Language
    Donald Chamberlin
    is a database management language
  • C++

    'increment C by 1.'
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    general-purpose programming language based on C, but considered for efficient
  • ADA

    named after Ada Lovelace
    Jean Ichbiah
    object-oriented high-level computer programming language
  • Python

    Guido van Rossum
    general-purpose programming language
  • Java

    James Gosling
    general-purpose computer programming language
  • Visual Basic

    Alan Cooper
    programming language from Microsoft for its Component Object Model (COM)
  • PHP

    Hypertext Preprocessor
    Rasmus Lerdorf
    used to develop Static websites or Dynamic websites or Web applications
  • Delphi

    Embarcadero company
    used for development of mobile applications
  • Javascript

    Brendan Eich
    Used with HTML code to edit websites, and online things