Programming Languages

By sammarttila

  • Plankalkul

    Developed in 1948 by Konrad Zuse. The purpose of this programming language is for engineering purposes.

  • Fortran

    Developed in 1957 by John Backus and IBM. The purpose of this programming language is general-purpose, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing.

  • MATH-MATIC

    Developed in 1957 by Remington Rand. The purpose of this programming language is to be a language for the UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II..

  • Lisp

    Developed in 1958 by Steve Russell, Timothy P. Hart, and Mike Levin. The original purpose of this programming language was as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs but then it became the favored programming language for artificial intelligence.

  • COBOL

    Developed in 1959 by Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden and Gertrude Tierney. The purpose of this programming language is for business use. The acronym is "Common Business Oriented Language".

  • RPG

    Developed in 1959 by IBM. The purpose of this programming language was as a tool to replicate punched card processing on the IBM 1401. RPG is an acronym for "Report Program Generator".

  • BASIC

    Developed in 1964 by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz. The purpose of this programming language is that it is all purpose and widely used on personal computers everywhere. The acronym for this language is "Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code".

  • LOGO

    Developed in 1967 by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon. The purpose of this programming language is to teach concepts of programming related to Lisp. LOGO is not and acronym.

  • B

    Developed in 1969 by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. The purpose of this programming language is for non-numeric applications.

  • PASCAL

    Developed in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth. The purpose of this programming language is to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.

  • C

    Developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie & Bell Labs. The purpose of this programming language is a system programming language to write operating system.

  • ML

    Developed in 1973 by Robin Milner & others at the University of Edinburgh. The purpose of this programming language is mostly applied in language design and manipulation, but it is a general-purpose language also used in bioinformatics, and financial systems. ML is an acronym for "Meta Language".

  • SQL

    Developed in 1974 by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce. The purpose of this programming language is to manage data and for stream processing in a RDSMS. SQL is an acronym for Structured Query Language.

  • ADA

    Developed in 1980 by Jean Ichbiah and Tucker Taft. The purpose of this programming language is for large, long lived applications.

  • C++

    Developed in 1985 by Bjarne Stroustrup. The purpose of this programming language is general purpose object-oriented programming. It is an extension of the C language.

  • Delphi

    Developed in1986 by Initially Apple Computer with input from Niklaus Wirth, and then by Borland International, led by Anders Hejlsberg. The purpose of this programming language is for desktop, mobile, web, and console applications.

  • Python

    Developed in 1991 by Guido van Rossum. The purpose of this programming language is to let you work quickly and integrate systems more effectively.

  • Visual Basic

    Developed in 1991 by Microsoft. The purpose of this programming language is for beginners and to be easy to learn.

  • Java

    Developed in 1995 by Sun Microsystems (now owned by Oracle Corporation). The purpose of this programming language is to have the look and feel of the C++ language, but be simpler to use than C++ and enforce an object-oriented programming model.

  • Javascript

    Developed in 1995 by Brendan Eich. The purpose of this programming language is to make webpages interactive and provide online programs, like video games.

  • PHP

    Developed in 1995 by Rasmus Lerdorf. The purpose of this programming language is to create dynamic and interactive Web pages. PHP was originally an acronym for "Personal Home Page" but now a recursive acronym for "Hypertext Processor".