Timeline Assignment

Plankalkul

Jan 1, 1948

Plankalkul was developed in 1948 by Konrad Zeus. This programming language was designed to be used for engineering purposes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankalkü

MATH-MATIC

Jan 1, 1957

MATH-MATIC was developed in 1957 by Remington Rand, primarily to give more features/improve upon the FLOW-MATIC programming language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATH-MATIC

Lisp

Jan 1, 1958

Lisp was developed in 1958 by John McCarthy. It was created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language)

COBOL

Jan 1, 1959

COBOL was developed in 1959 by CODASYL, ANSI, ISO. It is a common business oriented language designed specifically for business use. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL

BASIC

Jan 1, 1964

BASIC is a programming language that was developed in 1964 by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz. It is an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC

LOGO

Jan 1, 1967

LOGO was developed in 1967 by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert. Developed to teach concepts of programming related to Lisp. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language)

B

Jan 1, 1969

The programming language B, was developed in 1969 by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. The name B, may be a contraction from BCPL. Main purpose was to be used to write programming language on older computers as it was very barebones. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(programming_language)

Pascal

Jan 1, 1970

Pascal was developed in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth. It was designed as a small efficient language that could encourage good programming practices by using structured programming and data structuring. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_(programming_language)

C

Jan 1, 1972

C was developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie and Bell Labs. It was designed to encourage cross-platform programming. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language)

ML

Jan 1, 1973

ML or, "MetaLanguage" was developed in 1973 by Robin Milner and others at the University of Edinburgh. The overall purpose of this language was to develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_ML

SQL

Jan 1, 1974

SQL was developed in 1974 by Donald D. Chamberlin and Ramond F. Boyce. SQL stands for "Structured Query Language." It was designed for managing data held in a relational database management system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL

ADA

Jan 1, 1980

ADA was developed in 1980 and was originally designed by Jean Ichbiah, then later Revised by S. Tucker Taft. ADA is named after Ada Lovelace who is widely regarded as the first programmer. This language was designed for the development of very large software systems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_(programming_language)

Python

Jan 1, 1991

Python was developed in 1991 by Guido Van Rossum. It was designed to emphasize code readability. It’s syntax allows programmers to express concepts in fewer lines of code than possible in language such as C++ or Java. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)

Visual Basic

Jan 1, 1991

Visual Basic was developed in 1991 by Microsoft. It is intended to be relatively easy to learn and designed to accommodate a steep learning curve. Programmers can create both simple and complex GUI applications. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic

JavaScript

Jan 1, 1995

JavaScript was developed in 1995 by Brendan Eich. It is most commonly used as a client side scripting language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript

Java

Jan 1, 1995

Java was developed in 1995 by James Gosling. It was designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible. It is intended to let application developers “write once, run anywhere.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_language)

PHP

Jan 1, 1995

PHP was developed in 1995 by Rasmus Lerdorf. It originally stood for Personal Home Page but now stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. It is designed primarily for web development but is also used as a general purpose programming language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP

FORTRAN

Jan 1, 2008

FORTRAN was developed in 2008 by John Backus and IBM. FORTRAN stands for Formula Translation. It was developed for scientific and engineering applications. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran

C++

Jan 1, 2014

C++ was developed in 2014 by Bjarne Stroustrup. The purpose of this programming language was to further improve upon the C language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B

Delphi

Jan 1, 2016

Delphi was developed in 2016 and was originally developed by Borland to be the successor of Turbo Pascal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi_(programming_language)