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Programming Languages Timeline

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  • Plankalkul

    By Konrad Kuse, first high level programming language.
    designed in 1943, made in 1998.

  • Fortran

    Fortran
    Made by John Backus.
    Stands for 'Formula Translation".
    Made for processing mathematical
    operations.
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    Programming Languages Timeline

    the year the language was developed, the people who developed the language, the primary purpose of the language, and if the letters in the name are an acronym that stands for something more meaningful.

  • MATH-MATIC

    Made by Grace Hopper of Rand Corporation.
    Developed from the A-0 compiler.

  • Lisp

    Lisp
    Developed at MIT by John McCarthy for AI
    research.

  • COBOL

    Developed by: Created Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden, Gertrude Tierneyas a programming language
    to be used by businesses.

  • RPG

    RPG
    Report Program Generator
    A language by IBM for use
    on their systems.

  • BASIC

    John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz at Dartmouth College
    made to be more accesible to
    users not in the field of science or mathematics.

  • LOGO

    Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, Cynthia Solomon
    established at MIT, meant to be easy to learn but
    flexible.

  • B

    Ken Thompson, with contributions from Dennis Ritchie
    Created by Bell labs
    for system programming.

  • PASCAL

    Made by Niklaus Wirth, intended
    to be efficient and a good
    language for learning the
    concepts of programming.

  • C

    Served as the foundation for
    later programming
    languages (c++, C#)

  • ML

    Robin Milner
    Stands for "metalanguage", general
    purpose language

  • SQL

    by IBM
    Structured Query language
    Used for database creation
    and management.

  • C++

    General purpose
    programming language,
    made by Bjarne
    Stroustrup

  • ADA

    Designed collaboratively by many
    groups for the Department of
    Defense.

  • Visual Basic

    Created by Microsoft to rival
    other languages and
    simplify application
    programming.

  • Python

    Guido van Rossum
    Scripting Language, fast and flexible.

  • Java

    used with many devices for many purposes, including web development, released by sun micro-systems.

  • Javascript

    Brendan Eich at Netscape
    utilized in the development of web sites, not related to Java.

  • PHP

    Rasmus Lerdorf Server-side, Scripting language.

  • Delphi

    Anders Hejlsberg at Borland
    Based on Pascal, similar concepts to Visual Basic.