The History of Language

Plankalkül "formal system for planning"

Jan 30, 1948

Developed by Konrad Zuse A programming language designed for engineering purposes
Includes:
-Includes assignment statements
-Subroutines
-Conditional statements
-Iteration
-Floating point arithmetic
-Arrays
-Hierarchical record structures
-Assertions
-Exception handling
-Goal-directed execution

MATH-MATIC (AT-3 compiler)

Jan 30, 1957

Developed by Charles Katz Intended as an improvement over FORTRAN
Early programming language for UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II
Main inspiration for COBOL

Fortran (Derived from FORmula TRANslating System)

Jan 30, 1957

Developed by John Backus & IBM General-purpose, imperative programming language
Numeric computation and scientific computing Uses Include:
-Numerical weather prediction
-Finite element analysis
-Computational fluid dynamics
-Computational physics
-Computational chemistry

Lisp (Previously LISP)

Jan 30, 1958

Developed by John McCarthy with Steve Russell, Timothy P. Hart, and Mike Levin Originally a practical mathematical notation for computer programs
Pioneered
-Tree data structures
-Automatic storage management
-Dynamic typing
-Conditionals
-Higher-order functions
-Recursion
-The self-hosting compiler

COBOL (COmmon Business-Oriented Language)

Jan 30, 1959

Devoloped by Grace Hopper with input from: William Selden, Gertrude Tierney, Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet One of the oldest programming languages
Use in business, finance, and administrative systems
For companies and governments

RPG (Report Program Generator)

Jan 30, 1959

Developed by IBM High-level programming language (HLL) for business applications
Available ONLY on IBM i or OS/400 based systems

BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code)

Jan 30, 1964

Developed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz Design for ease of use
Not commonly used today but somtimes used to teach the fundamentals of programming

Logo

Jan 30, 1967

Developed by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert Educational programming language
Originally used to teach concepts of Lisp
An adaptation and dialect of Lisp

B

Jan 30, 1969

Developed by Ken Thompson Primarily non-numeric applications such as system programming
Typically involving complex logical decision-making

Pascal

Jan 30, 1970

Developed by Niklaus Wirth A small and efficient language
Used to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring

C

Jan 30, 1972

Developed by Dennis Ritchie at AT&T Bell Labs For structured programming
Its design provides constructs that map efficiently to typical machine instructions

ML (Metalanguage)

Jan 30, 1973

Developed by Robin Milner with the University of Edinburgh A well-typed ML program does not cause runtime type errors
Features include:
-Call-by-value evaluation strategy
-First-class functions
-Automatic memory management through garbage collection
-Parametric polymorphism
-Static typing
-Type inference
-Algebraic data types
-Pattern matching
-Exception handling

SQL (Structured Query Language)

Jan 30, 1974

Developed by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce with ISO/IEC Special-purpose programming language designed for managing data held in a relational database management system (RDBMS)
Includes:
-Data insert
-Query
-Update and delete
-Schema creation and modification
-Data access control

ADA

Jan 30, 1980

Developed by a team led by Dr. Jean Ichbiah Used and designed for large, long-lived applications
Usually when reliablity and efficiency are essential

C++ (originally named C with Classes)

Jan 30, 1983

Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup One of the most popular programming languages
Used on a wide variety of hardware and operating system platforms Its application domains include systems software, application software, device drivers, embedded software, high-performance server and client applications, and entertainment software such as video games

Delphi

Jan 30, 1986

Developed by Niklaus Wirth and Anders Hejlsberg with Apple Extension of the Pascal language

Python

Jan 30, 1991

Developed by Guido van Rossum with Python Software Foundation General-purpose, high-level programming language
Fewer lines of code than would be possible in languages such as C
Intended to clear programs on both a small and large scale

Visual Basic

Jan 30, 1991

Developed by Microsoft Influenced by BASIC
Enables the ability for the following:
-Graphical user interface (GUI) applications
-Access to databases using Data Access Objects
-Remote Data Objects
-ActiveX Data Objects
-Creation of ActiveX controls and objects

JavaScript (JS)

Jan 30, 1995

Developed by Brendan Eich with Netscape Communications Corporation and Mozilla Foundation Used as a part of web browsers
Allowing
-Interaction with the user
-Control of the browser
-Communication asynchronously
-Altering of the document content that is displayed

PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor)

Jan 30, 1995

Developed by Rasmus Lerdorf with The PHP Group Designed for web development
Used to build simple, dynamic web applications
A general-purpose programming language

Java

Jan 30, 1995

Developed by James Gosling and Sun Microsystems with Oracle Corporation One of the most popular programming languages in use Designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible
Typically compiled to bytecode (class file) that can run on any Java virtual machine regardless of computer architecture