Programming Languages Timeline

Plankalkul

1948

It was developed between 1942 and 1945 and first appeared in 1948
It was developed by Konrad Zuse
It is a programming language designed for engineering purposes
It stands for Plan Calculus

MATH-MATIC

1957

Developed/first appeared around 1957
It was written and developed by a team led by Charles Katz and was designed by Remington Rand
The purpose was to provide algebraic-style expressions and floating-point arithmetic
It stands for the marketing name for the AT-3 (Algebraic Translator 3)

Fortran

1957

Fortran was developed in 1957
It was developed by John Backus
It is a programming language that is especially used for scientific computing
It stands for Formula Translation

Lisp

1958

Lisp was developed in 1958
It was developed by John McCarthy, Steve Russell, Timothy P. Hart, and Mike Levin
Lisp is a family of computer programming languages and the second oldest programming language today
Lisp stands for List Processing

COBOL

1959

Developed/first appeared in 1959
It was developed by CODASYL, ANSI, and ISO
The language is a compiled English-like computer programming language designed for business use.
It stands for COmmon Business-Oriented Language.

RPG

1959

RPG was developed in 1959
It was designed and developed by IBM
It is a high-level programming language for business applications

BASIC

1964

Developed/First appeared on May 1, 1964
Developed/designed by John G. Kemeny, Thomas E. Kurtz, and Mary Kenneth Keller.
The idea behind the creation of Basic is that the philosophy emphasizes ease of use.
BASIC stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

LOGO

1967

Developed/first appeared in 1967
Developed by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert
It is an educational programming language which is widely known for its use of turtle graphics

B

1969

The language was developed/first appeared on 1969
It was developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie.
B was designed for recursive, non-numeric, machine-independent applications, such as system and language software.
Does not stand for anything https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(programming_language)

PASCAL

1970

It was developed in 1970 but Niklaus Wirth designed it in in 1968–69
It was developed by Niklaus Wirth
It is intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.
It is named in honor of Blaise Pascal.

C

1972

C wad developed in 1972
It was developed by Dennis Ritchie
Its purpose is to be very flexible and versatile, allowing maximum control with minimal commands.

Delphi

1973

It was developed around 1973
It was developed by a team led by Larry Tesler with Niklaus Wirth
Delphi is designed to be a high-level language supporting object-oriented design.

ML

1973

It developed/first appeared in 1973
It was developed by Robin Milner and other people at the University of Edinburgh
it is a general-purpose functional programming language which is known for its polymorphic Hindley–Milner type system
It stands for Meta Language

SQL

1974

SQL developed/first appeared in 1974
It was designed and developed by Donald D. Chamberlin
Raymond F. Boyce
The program is designed for managing data held in a relational database management system
It stands for Structured Query Language

ADA

1980

The language was first developed/first appeared on February 1980
The language was designed by Jean Ichbiah, S. Tucker Taft and developed by a team led by Dr. Jean Ichbiah at CII-Honeywell-Bull in France.
Ada is meat to be a structured, statically typed, imperative, and object-oriented high-level computer programming language.
Does not stand for anything.

C++

1985

Developed/first appeared in 1985
Designed by Bjarne Stroustrup
C++ is a step up from C with object-oriented programming features
It originally stood for C with classes but was later changed to C++

Python

1991

It was developed and first released in 1991
Python was developed by Guido van Rossum
It is used for general-purpose programming and emphasizes code readability

Visual Basic

1991

It developed/first appeared in 1991 but its final release was in 1998
It was developed by Microsoft
Its a programming language designed for its Component Object Model

PHP

1994

It was created in 1994
It was developed by Rasmus Lerdorf
PHP is designed for Web development, but also used as a general-purpose programming language
PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page. Now it stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor

Java

May 23, 1995

Java was developed/first appeared in 1995
It was developed and designed by James Gosling
Java is a programming language that developers use to create applications

Javascript

Dec 4, 1995

Javascript was developed/first appeared in 1995
It was developed by Brendan Eich
Javascript is a scripting language which is commonly used for client-side web development.