Programming Languages Timeline

By Jmelby

  • Plankalkul

    Year Developed: 1945
    People Who Developed: Konrad Zuse
    Primary Purpose: Engineering purposes
    Acronym: Plan Calculus

  • MATH-MATIC

    Year Developed: 1957
    People Who Developed: Grace Hopper
    Primary Purpose: An auto-code based around mathematics.

  • Fortran

    Year Developed: 1957
    People Who Developed: Small Team led by John Backus
    Primary Purpose: Large-scale numerical calculations in science and engineering.
    Acronym: Formula Translation

  • COBOL

    Year Developed: 1959
    People Who Developed: Conference on Data Systems Languages
    Primary Purpose: Fulfill two major objectives: Portability and Readability. Used in the Business community.
    Acronym: Common Business-oriented language

  • Lisp

    Year Developed: 1960
    People Who Developed: John McCarthy
    Primary Purpose: Easy manipulation of data strings
    Acronym: List Prcessing

  • RPG

    Year Developed: 1961
    People Who Developed: IBM
    Primary Purpose: For business applications, report-writing tool.
    Acronym: Report Programming Generator

  • BASIC

    Year Developed: 1963
    People Who Developed: John Kemeney and Thomas Kurtz
    Primary Purpose: An interactive mainframe time sharing language
    Acronym: Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

  • LOGO

    Year Developed:1967
    People Who Developed: Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon
    Primary Purpose: Functional programming and for generating basic shapes using a turtle cursor.

  • B

    Year Developed:1969
    People Who Developed: D. M. Ritchie and K. l. Thompson
    Primary Purpose: Non-numeric applications such as system programming
    Acronym: None but derived from BCPL

  • C

    Year Developed: Early 1970's
    People Who Developed: By Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs
    Primary Purpose: Developing Firmware and o portable applications.

  • PASCAL

    Year Developed: 1970
    People Who Developed: Niklaus Wirth
    Primary Purpose: To teach programming techniques
    Acronym: Named after Blaise Pascal

  • SQL

    Year Developed: 1970's
    People Who Developed: Raymond Boyce and Donald Chamberlin at IBM
    Primary Purpose: To query, insert, update and modify data.
    Acronym: Structured Query Language

  • ML

    Year Developed: 1972
    People Who Developed: Robin Milner at the University of Edinburgh\
    Primary Purpose: General-purpose functional programming language
    Acronym: Meta Language

  • C++

    Year Developed: 1979
    People Who Developed: Bjarne Stroustrup
    Primary Purpose: Adding Object oriented programming to the C class.
    More Info: Derived From the C Coding Language

  • ADA

    Year Developed: 1980
    People who Developed: Jean Ichbiah and Tucker Taft
    Primary Purpose: Critical Software

  • Python

    Year Developed: 1989
    People Who Developed: Guido van Rossum
    Primary Purpose: Create simple or complex programs more quickly

  • Visual Basic

    Year Developed: 1991
    People Who Developed: Alan Cooper and his associates under Microsoft.
    Primary Purpose: Provides a graphical programming environment and for developing user interfaces.
    Acronym: Based off of BASIC

  • PHP

    Year Developed: 1994
    People Who Developed: Rasmus Lerdorf
    Primary Purpose: Web-Development
    Acronym: Hypertext Processor

  • Java

    Year Developed: 1995
    People Who Developed: James Gosling
    Primary Purpose: General purpose, object-oriented computer language.
    Acronym

  • Javascript

    Year Developed: 1995
    People Who Developed: Brendan Eich
    Primary Purpose: To make web pages interactive. Object-oriented.

  • Delphi

    Year Developed: 1995
    People Who Developed: Embarcadero Technologies
    Primary Purpose:Object oriented design, develop applications ranging from database solutions to mobile applications.