Programming Languages

  • Plankalkul

    Created by Konrad Zuse, used for engineering purposes, first high-level programming language
  • Fortran

    Created by John Backus, used mostly in scientific computing
  • Lisp

    Created by John McCarthy, used as mathmatical notation for computer programs
  • RPG

    Created by IBM, used to replicate punched card processing on the IBM 1401
  • COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language)

    Craeted by Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden, Gertrude Tierney, and Mary K. Hawes, used to translate code to English in business
  • BASIC (Beginners' All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code)

    Created by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz, used to make coding easier to understand
  • LOGO

    created by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon, used to teach concepts of coding
  • B

    Created by Ken Thompson, used for complex logical decision making
  • PASCAL

    Created by Niklaus Wirth, used to encourage good programming practices
  • C

    Created by Dennis Ritchie, used to support structured programming
  • ML (Meta Language)

    Created by Robin Milner, used to automatically assign expressions
  • SQL

    Created by ISO/IEC, used to manage data inside a database
  • ADA

    Created by Jean Ichbian, used to support data insertion and memory
  • C++

    Created by Bjarne Stroustrup, used as an extension to C programming
  • MATH-MATIC (Wolfram Mathematica)

    Created by Wolfram Research, used to for high-performance computing
  • Python

    Created by Guido van Rossum, used by programmers to write more clearly, logical coding
  • Visual Basic

    Created by Microsoft, used to be easy to learn, and easy to create programs
  • Delphi

    Created by Anders Hejlsberg, used to develop desktop, mobile, web, and console software
  • PHP

    Created by Rasmus Lerdorf, used for web-development using C programming
  • Java

    Created by James Gosling, used as a general application to run on all platforms without recompilation
  • Javascript (JS)

    Created by Brendan Eich, used to enable interactive web pages