Programming Languages Timeline

  • Plankalkul

    people who developed the language: Konrad Zuse
    Primary purpose of the language: Plankalkul is a programming language designed for engineering purposes.
  • Fortran

    People who developed the laguage: John Backus
    Purpose of the language being developed: esigned for Scince computing and computing numbers.
  • MATH-MATIC

    people who developed the language: Charles Katz
    Primary purpose of the language: This language was built to be an imporovment over FORTRAN.
  • LISP

    people who developed the language: John McCarthy
    Primary purpose of the language: Created as a mathematical notation for computer programms.
  • COBAL

    Acronym: Common Buisness-Orieted Language
    Who developed the Language: Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vermon Reeves, Jean E. Semmet, William Selden, Gertrude Tiereney
    Purpose of this Language: Designed for buisnees use for a buisness, company, government, and finace.
  • RPG

    people who developed the language: IBM
    Primary purpose of the language: An advanced progrmming language for creating and running buisness applications.
    Acronym: Report Program Generator
  • BASIC

    Acronym: Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
    Who developed the Language: John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz
    Purpose of this Language:The producers of this language wanted to have peple from other fields besides Science and Math to use computers.
  • LOGO

    people who developed the language: Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert
    Primary purpose of the language: To help student understand and predict where the turtle would go next if they were to put themselves in the shoes of the turtle.
  • B

    People who developed the language: Ken Thopson and Dennis Ritchie
    Primary purpose of the language: Machine applications such as system and language software.
  • PASCAL

    people who developed the language: Niklaus Wirth
    Primary purpose of the language: A small language created to encourage good programming practices.
  • C

    Who developed the Language: Dennis Ritchie
    Purpose of this Language:Used to re-implant the Unix operating system.
  • ML

    people who developed the language: Robert Milner
    Primary purpose of the language: It was created to make proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover.

    Acronym: Metalanguage
  • SQL

    people who developed the language: Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce
    Primary purpose of the language: This language was created to help manage data in a database Management System.
    Acronym: Structured Query Language
  • ADA

    People who developed the language: Jean Ichbiah
    Primary purpose of the language: Helps in the saftey and maintaing of errors.
    Named after Ada Lovelace.
  • C++

    Who developed the Language: Bjarne Stroustrup
    Purpose of this Language: Buisness Applications, Appplication in geeral and Entertainment software.
  • Python

    people who developed the language: Guido Van Russom
    Primary purpose of the language: This programming language is a good all-around general language to use.
  • Visual Basic

    people who developed the language: Microsoft
    Primary purpose of the language: Microsoft created Visual Basic to be an easy to learn and use language that beginners can learn and thrive in as one of their first languages.
  • Delphi

    People who developed the language: Borland
    Purpose of the language: Dessigned for a super ast application creating tool.
  • Java

    Peopele who crated the language: James Gosling
    Purpose of the Language: To help application developers to make it more convienient for them to develop applications.
  • Javascript

    people who developed the language: Brendan Eich
    Primary purpose of the language: One of the three essential languages of the internet. Used for just about anything and everything.
  • PHP

    people who developed the language: Rasmus Lerdorf
    Primary purpose of the language: This language was designed for website development but is also a general purpose programming language.
    Acronym:

    Originally stood for: Personal Home Page,
    Now stands for: Hypertext Preprocessor.