Programming Languages Timeline

By RaeSoSa
  • ADA

    Meanwhile, Ada Lovelace created the first complex executable computer program as notes for this device in 1842 and 1843 (although Babbage had written earlier more rudimentary codes with errors in 1836 and 1837).
  • Plankalkul

    Konrad Zuse, German engineer who in 1941 constructed the first fully operational program-controlled electromechanical binary calculating machine, or digital computer
  • Fortran

    FORTRAN, in full Formula Translation, computer-programming language created in 1957 by John Backus that shortened the process of programming and made computer programming more accessible. The creation of FORTRAN, which debuted in 1957, marked a significant stage in the development of computer-programming languages.
  • MATH-MATIC(AT-3 (Algebraic Translator 3)

    MATH-MATIC is the marketing name for the AT-3 (Algebraic Translator 3) compiler, an early ... A preliminary manual was produced in 1957 and a final manual the following year.
  • COBOL(Common Business-Oriented Language)

    COBOL has been around since 1959, when it was developed by the Conference on Data Systems Languages (CODASYL). It was one of the first high-level programming languages created. COBOL is run on the mainframe as well as on the PC.
  • RPG(Report Program Generator)

    It has a long history, having been developed by IBM in 1959 as the Report Program Generator — a tool to replicate punched card processing on the IBM 1401
  • Lisp

    LISP, in full list processing, a computer programming language developed about 1960 by John McCarthy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
  • BASIC

    Invented by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, BASIC was first successfully used to run programs on the school's General Electric computer system 50 years ago this week–at 4 a.m. on May 1, 1964, to be precise.
  • LOGO(turtle graphics)

    Alternatively referred to as turtle graphics, Logo is pronounced as Low-go and is a high-level programming language known for its graphics capabilities, created by Seymour Papert in 1967. Logo is often used for young school children as a basic method of programming instructions into a computer to create a graphic.
  • B(Bell Labs)

    is an industrial research and scientific development company owned by Finnish company Nokia. Its headquarters are located in Murray Hill, New Jersey. Other laboratories are located around the world (with some in the United States). Bell Labs has its origins in the complex past of the Bell System.
  • PASCAL

    Pascal, a computer programming language developed about 1970 by Niklaus Wirth of Switzerland to teach structured programming, which emphasizes the orderly use of conditional and loop control structures without GOTO statements.
  • SQL(SEQUEL)

    The SQL programming language was first developed in the 1970s by IBM researchers Raymond Boyce and Donald Chamberlin. The programming language, known then as SEQUEL, was created following the publishing of Edgar Frank Todd's paper, "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks," in 1970.
  • C(C programming)

    The programming language Java was introduced in 1994 as a simplified subset of C for deployment over the Internet and for use in portable devices with limited memory or limited processing capabilities. The C programming language was developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan…
  • ML("Meta Language")

    ML ("Meta Language") is a general-purpose functional programming language.
  • C++

    Before the initial standardization in 1998, C++ was developed by Danish computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Labs since 1979 as an extension of the C language; he wanted an efficient and flexible language similar to C that also provided high-level features for program organization.
  • Python

    Python was conceived in the late 1980s by Guido van Rossum at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in the Netherlands as a successor to the ABC language (itself inspired by SETL), capable of exception handling and interfacing with the Amoeba operating system. Its implementation began in December 1989.
  • PHP(CGI)

    Created in 1994 by Rasmus Lerdorf, the very first incarnation of PHP was a simple set of Common Gateway Interface (CGI) binaries written in the C programming language.
  • Delphi

    Delphi (later known as Delphi 1) was released in 1995 for the 16-bit Windows 3.1, and was an early example of what became known as Rapid Application Development (RAD) tools.
  • Java

    Java was first released in 1995, and Java's ability to provide interactivity and multimedia showed that it was particularly well suited for the Web. In the early 1990s, Java was designed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
  • Javascript

    Eich wrote one in 10 days, in May 1995. Although it was developed under the name Mocha, the language was officially called LiveScript when it first shipped in beta releases of Netscape Navigator 2.0 in September 1995, but it was renamed JavaScript when it was deployed in the Netscape Navigator 2.0 beta 3 in December.
  • Visual Basic 6.0

    Released in September 1998, Visual Basic 6.0 is designed to make Web and database programming easier than ever. On that note, the product is quite successful, but VB 6.0 includes much, much more than that.