Programming Languages Timeline

  • Plankalkul

    Plankalkul was developed by Konrad Zuse for engineering purposes.
  • Fortran

    Fortran was developed by John Backus and IBM. It is a general-purpose language best suited to numeric computation and scientific computing.
  • MATH-MATIC

    MATH-MATIC was developed by Remington Rand, a business machine manufacturer. It is a compiler developed for the UNIVAC.
  • Lisp

    Lisp was developed by Steve Russell, Timothy P. Hart, and Mike Levin. Lisp was developed for easy manipulation of data.
  • COBOL

    COBOL stands for common business-oriented language. It was developed by the Committee on Data System Languages, the American National Standards Institute, and the International Organization for Standardization. COBOL is mainly used in business and administrative systems.
  • RPG

    RPG (Report Program Generator) was developed by IBM. It was made to replicate the punched card processing of earlier computers.
  • BASIC

    BASIC stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. It was developed by John G. Kemeny, Thomas E. Kurtz, and Mary Kenneth Keller. BASIC was made to provide users with an easy to learn language, making computers more accessible to people who weren't math or science students.
  • Logo

    Logo was developed by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, Cynthia Solomon. Logo was developed to teach programming related to the Lisp language.
  • B

    B was developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. B was made for recursive, non-numeric, and machine-independent applications, such as system and language software.
  • Pascal

    Pascal was developed by Niklaus Wirth. It is an efficient language meant to encourage structure in code.
  • C

    C was developed by Dennis Ritchie along with Bell Labs. C is a general-purpose language that is used for many different things.
  • ML

    ML (Meta Language) was developed by Robin Milner and a team at the University of Edinburgh. ML is a general-purpose language.
  • SQL

    SQL (Structured Query Language) was developed by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce. It is used for managing data.
  • Ada

    Ada was developed by Jean Ichbiah and Tucker Taft. Ada is meant to maximize reliability and efficiency in large applications.
  • C++

    C++ was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup. C++ is a general-purpose language that was designed with system programming in mind.
  • Python

    Python was developed by Guido van Rossum. It is used for general programming and emphasizes clear and readable code.
  • Visual Basic

    Visual Basic was developed by Microsoft. It is used for rapid development of GUI applications.
  • PHP

    PHP was developed by Zend Technologies. It was designed for web development, but is also used for other purposes.
  • Java

    Java was developed by Sun Microsystems. Java's main purpose is to serve as a general language with as few dependencies as possible so that it could run on many different platforms.
  • Javascript

    Javascript was developed by Netscape Communications Corporation, Mozilla Foundation, and Ecma International. Javascript is most commonly used for HTML coding.
  • Delphi

    Delphi is an application used for quick app development, as well as an event-driven language. It is developed by Embarcadero Technologies.