Programming Languages Timeline

  • Plankalkul

    • Name refers to a formal system for planning
    • Designed by Konrad Zuse
    • Designed for engineering purposes and to be used on the Z4 (one of the world’s first programmable computers)
  • Fortran

    • Name derived from Formula Translation
    • Developed by John Backus
    • Designed to be suited to numeric computation and scientific computing and to be used to aid scientific and mathematical programmers