Programming Languages

  • Plankalkul (Plan Calculus)

    Developed by Konrad Zuse as the first high-level programming language to be designed for a computer
  • Fortran (Formula Translator)

    Developed by a team at IBM led by John Backus to allow easy translation of math formulas into code.
  • MATH-MATIC

    Developed by Remington Rand as a programming language for the UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II.
  • COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language)

    Developed by Grace Murray Hopper to be part of a US Department of Defense effort to create a portable programming language for data processing.
  • RPG (Report Program Generator)

    Developed by IBM as an alternative for the punch card processing system on the IBM 1401
  • Lisp (List Processing)

    Developed by John McCarthy originally as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs, but soon became the favored programming language for artificial intelligence.
  • BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code)

    Developed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz to run General Electric's computer system.
  • LOGO

    Developed by Wally Feurzeig, Cynthia Solomon, and Seymour Papert to create a mathematical land where children could play with words and sentences and give informative error messages.
  • B

    Developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie for primarily non-numeric applications such as system programming.
  • PASCAL

    Developed by Niklaus Wirth to teach structured programming with the emphasis of using conditional and loop structures without the use of GoTo statements.
  • C

    Developed by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson to construct utilities running on the Unix operating system.
  • ML (Meta Language)

    Developed by Robin Milner to develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover.
  • SQL (Structured Query Language)

    Developed by Raymond Boyce for getting access and modifying data held in data bases
  • C++

    Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup as an extension to C.
  • ADA

    Developed by Jean Ichbiah to replace the hundreds of specialized programming languages used in military projects
  • Python

    Developed by Guido van Rossum on the emphasis of code legibility and it's syntax allows programmers to express concepts in fewer lines of code.
  • Visual Basic

    Developed by Microsoft to make it easier to write programs for the Windows Computer Operating System.
  • PHP (Hypertext Pre-Processor)

    Developed by Rasmus Lerdorf to build simple, dynamic web applications.
  • Delphi

    Developed by Anders Hejlsberg for rapid application development of desktop, mobile, web, and console software.
  • Java

    Developed by a team at Sun Microsystems Inc. led by James Gosling to create a new language that would allow consumer electronic devices to communicate with each other.
  • Javascript

    Developed by Brendan Eich to create a programming language for a new web browser Netscape at the time.