Programming Languages Timeline

  • Plankalkul

    Plankalkul
    Plankalkul was made by Konrad Zuse in 1948, it was the first high level language made and was made for engineering purposes
  • Fortran

    Fortran
    Fortran (derived from Formula Translation) was designed by John Backus in 1957.Mainly created for numeric computation and scientific computing.
  • MATH-MATIC

    MATH-MATIC
    MATH-MATIC (AT-3, Algebraic Translator 3) was created by Remington Rand in 1957. It was made for UNIVAC and had alot of arithmetic and math functions.
  • Lisp

    Lisp
    Lisp (after Locator/Identifier Separation Protocol) was created by John McCarthy, Steve Russell, Timothy P. Hart, and Mike Levin in 1958. It was created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs originally and is the 2nd oldest language still used today.
  • RPG

    RPG
    RPG (Report Program Generator) was made by IBM in 1958 for business applications.
  • COBOL

    COBOL
    COBOL (common business-oriented language) designed by Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden, and Gertrude Tierney in 1959 with CODASYL, ANSI, and ISO. COBOL was made and designed for business use for things like admin tools,finances, etc for companies and governments.
  • BASIC

    BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) was created by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz on May 1 1964. It was made as a ease of use focused language for beginners to learn.
  • LOGO

    LOGO
    LOGO made by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert in 1967 as a educational programming language for learning programming concepts.
  • B

    B was developed in 1969 by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, designed for stuff such as system and language software.
  • PASCAL

    PASCAL
    PASCAL made by Niklaus Wirth in 1970, made to be a small language to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.
  • C

    C
    C is a well know language designed by Dennis Ritchie and Bell labs in 1972 to be used for things like system programming and to encourage cross platform coding.
  • ML

    ML
    ML MADE by Robin Milner and others in 1973 as a general purpose functional language.
  • SQL

    SQL
    SQL(Structured Query Language) was made by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce of ISO in 1974. It was a special purpose language intended for managing data held in a relational database management system or for stream processing in that system.
  • ADA

    ADA
    ADA (named after Ada Lovelance, the first programmer) was originally created in 1980's by Jean Ichbiah and his team. ADA serves as a safe strongly typed high level object oriented language, seen worldwide used in high-integrity, safety-critical ,and high-security domains.
  • C++

    C++
    C++ designed by Bjarne Stroustrup in 1983 to be a efficient and flexible language like C, but also to give high-level features for program organization.
  • Python

    Python
    Python made by Guido van Rossum of the Python Software Foundation on Feb. 20 1991 as a language that empathized code readability and express concepts with less code lines.
  • Visual Basic

    Visual Basic
    Visual Basic made by Microsoft in 1991 made to be an easy to learn and use langues to create applications, like BASIC
  • PHP

    PHP
    PHP made by Rasmus Lerdorf of Zend Technologies
    in 1994, is a server-side scripting language. Designed for web development but also as a general-purpose language.
  • Java

    Java
    Java was created by James Gosling on May 23, 1995. Made as a general purpose language intended to be WORA ("write once, run anywhere") for application devs.
  • Javascript

    Javascript
    Javascript designed by Brendan Eich and Netscape Communications Corporation, Mozilla Foundation, and Ecma Internationalon on May 23 1995. Javascript's main purpose is as a high level untyped language for the websites and plug-ins. One of the most used web browser languages,
  • Delphi

    Delphi
    Delphi (Embarcadero Delphi) was designed by Borland and then Embarcadero Technologies. It was made as a SDK for desktop, mobile, web, and console applications. Originally released in 1995.