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History of Programming Languages - Chace

By _Retro_
  • PLANKALKUL

    German for "Plan Calculus", this language was the first High Level non-von Neumann language created by Konrad Zuse after moving out of Berlin after WWII.
  • FORTRAN

    The first High Level computer language created in 1954 by John Backus. This language wasnt released for commercial use until 1959.
  • MATH-MATIC

    This language was created by Charle s Katz for use on the UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II.
  • COBOL

    COmmon Business Oriented Language, more likely is referred to as an English subset than a programming language.
  • RPG

    The RPG language was created to suit on goal: Generating Informative large-scale reports from Mainframe devices. The language was orginally developed in the 1960's by IBM.
  • BASIC

    Standing for (Beginner's All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) was developed in 1964. It is meant to be a very simple language to learn.
  • LISP

    Created by John McCarthy in 1965, this language was created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programmmers.
  • LOGO

    This language was created for use by learners, even chuldren! It was created in 1967 for educational use.
  • PASCAL

    PASCAL is an influential imperative and procedural language by Niklaus Wirth. Developed in 1968-1969 and published in 1970.
  • ML

    This general-purpose functional language was created by Robin Milner in the early 1970's at the University of Edinburgh.
  • C

    Developed in the early 1970's by Dennis Ritchie to reimplement Unix.
  • B

    A language intended for non numeric applications. It was designed by D. M. Ritchie.
  • SQL

    Standing for (Structured Query Language) and also pronounced (See-quil), this language was developed by IBM for their mainframes in 1974-1975
  • C++

    This language was created in the late 1970's by B. Stroustrup to support object-oriented programming and other enhancements.
  • ADA

    Created in the early 1980's as a part of the US Government sponsorship competition for a new standard language.
  • Python

    Python is a general purpose, High Level programming language created by Guido van Rossum in the 1980's. This language is designed to be highly extensible.
  • JAVA

    This language was created at Sun Microsystems by a team of coders in the early 1990's. This language is also object-oriented.
  • Visual Basic

    Visual Basic is a computer programming system developed and owned by Microsoft. It was originally created to make it easier to write programs for the Windows operating system. This was introduced in 1991.
  • PHP

    PHP is a widely used general-purpose scripting language that is most suited for web development and can also be embedded into HTML.
  • DELPHI

    Created by Borland in 1995, this language is a descendant of Turbo Pascal.
  • JAVASCRIPT

    This language was created by Netscape. Intrpduced in 1995, this language was created to be an object-oriented web language.