The evolution of coding

By loogi_baloogi

  • ADA code

    Created by Jean Ichibach in 1815, new versions in 1995, 2002, and 2012. Used by the Department of Defense in the mid-1960s.

  • Plankalkul code

    Developed by Konrad Zuse. Mostly used for solving math, after all the idea to make it was to find a way for solving calculus,

  • Fortran code

    Developed in 1957 by John Backus and IBM as a code to suit high level performance tasks. This ended up being very successful and is now used for high performance computer labor. BASIC was inspired by Fortran.

  • MATH-MATIC code

    Developed by Remington Rand. It's primarily influenced by the FLOW-MATIC language. Used in the UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II

  • Lisp code

    Developed by John McCarthy. It became a popular code for developing artificial intelligence and has pioneered many innovations in computer science

  • COBOL code

    Developed by multiple people, the most notable being Howard Bromberg. It was met with a lot of criticism, with people saying it had a lot of compatibility issues.

  • RPG code

    Not developed by a person, but instead by a company, which is IBM. Mostly used for punch-card systems.

  • BASIC code

    First developed in John G. Kemeny. Did well at first with many home computers, but started to age compared to others. Eventually, Visual Basic rose out of the ashes.

  • LOGO code

    Developed by Beranek and Newman Bolt. Mainly used in educational coding robots called "turtles", It was inspired by the Lisp code.

  • B code

    Originally developed in 1969 by Ken Thompson. Was used as base code for older computers, such as the Honeywell GE 645 and the PDP 7.

  • PASCAL code

    Developed by Niklaus Wirth. Became very popular with home computers and made it's way into Macintosh computers. Later became Delphi for Windows computers

  • C code

    Developed by Dennis Richie in 1972. Was known for making the famous, "Hello world" message.

  • ML code

    Also known as Meta Language. Developed by the University of Edinburgh, mainly by Robin Milner. Inspired by Lisp, and inspired C++

  • SQL code

    Developed by Donald D. Chamberlin, with assistance from IBM. It's widely accessible and usable for many tasks.

  • C++ code

    Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup as an extension for C. Became so widely popular, it's used today by many companies, including Microsoft, Intel, IBM, Oracle, etc.

  • Python code

    Developed by Guido van Rossum. It is meant to extensible, meaning lots of modifications can be made.

  • VisualBasic code

    Developed by Microsoft. Used in various Windows OS systems, from Vista all the way to Windows 10.

  • Delphi code

    Developed by Danny Thorpe. Nowadays used as a great tool for developing programs on Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and Linux.

  • Java code

    Developed by James Gosling and Sun Microsystems, (now Oracle). Mainly used nowadays to develop Android applications, and is the main code of the most popular video game, Minecraft.

  • Javascript (or JS) code

    Developed by Brendan Eich. The .json format was inspired by Javascript. It is universally used in many browsers.

  • PHP code

    Also known as Hypertext Processor. Developed by Rasmus Lerdorf. Nowadays most websites using it are discontinued, and not much use is made out of PHP.