Programming Languages Timeline

By michaeleller28

  • Plankalkül

    Designed by: Konrad Zuse
    1948 CONCEPT was announced.
    Created procedures very early.

  • Fortran

    Designed by: John Backus
    Used for projects such as bridges and such.

  • MATH-MATIC

    Designed by: Remington Rand
    Used to do basic mathematics.

  • Lisp

    Designed by: John McCarthy
    Designed for easy manipulation of data strings.

  • RPG

    Developed: IBM
    Used to act as a punching card.

  • BASIC

    Designed by John Kemeney and Thomas Kurtz
    Made for students to make a simple computer program.

  • LOGO

    Designed by: Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, Cynthia Solomon
    Used for generating basic shapes.

  • B

    Designed by: Ken Thompson
    "Used for complex logical decision-making, and processing of integers, characters, and bit strings."

  • PASCAL

    Designed by: Niklaus Wirth
    Was designed for teaching programming and to make simple programs.

  • C

    Designed by Dennis Ritchie
    First appeared in 1972
    Used for games, graphics, and applications needing complex math.

  • SQL

    Deigned by: Donald D. Chamberlin
    Used for keeping up with data.

  • ADA

    Designed by Jean Ichbiah and S. Tucker Taft.
    First appeared in 1980
    Used for things such as missile control or payroll processing to air traffic control.

  • ML

    Designed by: Robin Milner
    It is used in programming language research used with formal sentences.

  • C++

    Designed by Bjarne Stroustrup
    General-purpose programming language
    First published in 1985

  • COBAL

    Designed by Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden, Gertrude Tierney
    Used in Business and Finance.
    Fist introduced in 1989

  • Python

    Designed by: Guido van Rossum
    Object orientated programming that allows the programmer to write clear code.

  • Visual Basic

    Created by: Microsoft
    Beginner teaching programming language

  • Delphi

    Designed by: Unknown
    "Delphi is both an object oriented programming language (OOP) and an Integrated Development Environment (IDE)."

  • Java

    Designed by: James Gosling
    Java can create complete applications to run on a single computer.

  • Javascript

    Designed by: Brendan Eich
    "JavaScript is a client scripting language which is used for creating web pages."

  • PHP

    Designed by: Rasmus Lerdorf
    Used to develop Static websites or Dynamic websites or Web applications.