Programming Languages Timeline

By WillO.
  • Fortran

    Made by John Backus, and made for processing Mathematical operations
  • MATH-MATIC

    Made by Grace Hopper of Rand Corporation and was Developed from the A-0 compiler.
  • Lisp

    It was developed at MIT by John McCarthy for AI research
  • COBOL

    Was designed by CODASYL and partially based on FLOW-MATIC made by Grace Hopper.
  • RPG

    Made by IBM to replicate punched card processing.
  • BASIC

    Invented by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz and to run programs on school's electric computer systems.
  • LOGO

    Made by IBM and was made for their own systems
  • B

    Was made by Bell Labs, and was used for systems programming
  • Pascal

    Was created by Niklaus Wirth and was made to be great for language to learn the basics of programming
  • C

    Made by Dennis Ritchie and was a high level language
  • ML

    Made by Robin Milner and means metalanguage
  • SQL

    Created by Donald D. Chamberlin and developed at IBM
  • C++

    Was made by Bjarne Stroustrup, and was made for programming
  • ADA

    Was made by a group of people for Department of Defense.
  • Python

    Made by Guido van Rossum at CWI in the Netherlands
  • Visual Basic

    Made by Microsoft to contrast with the other languages and make application programming simpler
  • Delphi

    Made by Anders Hejlsberg and he developed Turbo Pascal and moved to Microsoft in 1996
  • Java

    Released by Sun Microsystems and used by many devices
  • Javascript

    Made by Brandan Eich and was made in just 10 days
  • PHP

    Made by Zend Technologies, more specifically Rasmus Lerdorf
  • Plankalkul

    Started in 1943 but finished in 1998, made by Konrad Zuse