Program Timeline

  • Plankalkul

    Designed for engineering by Konrad Zuse
  • Fortran

    Formula Translation made by IBM for science and engineering
  • MATH-MATIC

    Charles Katz made for the AT-3 computer
  • Lisp

    high level programming language by John McCarthy
  • COBOL

    common business-oriented language made for buisness use made by CODASYL
  • RPG

    Made by IBM for business apps
  • BASIC

    Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code made by John Kemeny made to enable anyone to use a computer
  • LOGO

    Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon another general purpose language named after the Greek word Logos which means word
  • B

    Ken Thompson made for software and might stand for bon
  • PASCAL

    Niklaus Wirth procedural programming language
  • C

    Bell Labs by Dennis Ritchie used for general purpose
  • ML

    Meta Language made as a general purpose language by Robin Milner
  • SQL

    Structured Query Language by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce for managin data on RDBMS
  • ADA

    Jean Ichbiah made for the DoD
  • C++

    Bjarne Stroustrup made as an extension to C
  • Python

    Guido van Rossum for high level general use
  • Visual Basic

    3rd gen event programming language by Microsoft
  • Delphi

    Borland made it for rapid app development
  • Java

    James Gosling for general purpose use
  • PHP

    Made for web development by Rasmus Lerdorf
  • Javascript

    Multi-program language by Brendan Eich