Programming Languages Timeline

  • • Plankalkul

    This language was designed for engineering purposes by Konrad Zuse.
  • • Fortran

    Developed by IBM in the 1950s for scientific and engineering uses.
  • • MATH-MATIC

    Designed for the AT-3 compiler, which was an early programming language for the UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II. Created by a group led by Charles Katz.
  • • Lisp

    Lisp was originally created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs, influenced by Alonzo Church's lambda calculus.
  • • COBOL

    acronym for common business-oriented language
    English-like computer programming language designed for business use. Designed by CODASYL
  • • RPG

    Designed as a high-level programming language (HLL) for business applications. Developed by IBM as the Report Program Generator.
  • • BASIC

    Acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
    John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz designed the original BASIC language at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.
  • • LOGO

    An educational programming language, designed by Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon.
  • • B

    Designed for recursive, non-numeric, machine independent applications, such as system and language software and it was develped at Bell Labs.
  • • PASCAL

    Imperative and procedural programming language, this language was designed by Niklaus Wirth
  • • SQL

    Acronym for Structured Query Language.
    SQL is a special-purpose programming language designed for managing data held in a relational database management system. Was designed by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce
  • • C

    Was originally developed by Dennis Ritchie between 1969 and 1973 at AT&T Bell Labs, and was used to implement the Unix operating system.
  • • ML

    Is a general-purpose functional programming language developed by Robin Milner and his colleagues.
  • • ADA

    Is a structured, statically typed, imperative, wide-spectrum, and object-oriented high-level computer programming language, extended from Pascal. Was designed by Jean Ichbiah.
  • • C++

    Is a general-purpose programming language. Designed by Bjarne Stroustrup.
  • • Python

    Is a widely used general-purpose, high-level programming language. Was designed by Guido van Rossum.
  • • Visual Basic

    A third-generation event-driven programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) that was developed by Microsoft.
  • • Delphi

    Integrated development environment (IDE) for console, desktop graphical, web, and mobile applications. Is being developed by Embarcadero Technologies.
  • • Java

    A general-purpose computer programming language that is concurrent, class-based, and object-oriented. Being developed by James Gosling and Sun Microsystems
  • • Javascript

    Is a dynamic programming language that is most commonly used as part of web browser development. Developed by Brendan Eich
  • • PHP

    A server-side scripting language created in 1995 and designed for web development. Developed by Rasmus Lerdorf.