Programming Languages Timeline

By twantheswan

  • • Plankalkul

    Konrad Zuse. Engineering purposes

  • Fortran

    John Backus. Numeric computation

  • MATH-MATIC

    1957, Charles Katz. Language for UNIVAC I and II

  • Lisp

    John Mcarthy. Mathematical notation for comp. programs.

  • COBOL

    Grace Hopper.Business, finance, and administrative systems.

  • RPG

    Only available to IBM.

  • BASIC

    John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz. Ease of use was emphasized.

  • LOGO

    John Mcarthy. Mathematical notation for comp. programs.

  • B

    Ken Thompson. It is a contraction of BCPL. Typeless.

  • PASCAL

    Niklaus Wirth. Encouraged programming practices due to being small and efficient.

  • C

    Dennis Ritchie. General purpose language.

  • ML

    Robin Milner. LCF theorem prover

  • SQL

    Donald Chamberlin. Managing data held in databases.

  • • ADA

    Jean Ichbiah. Used for explicit concurrency, offering tasks, synchronous message passing, protected objects, and non-determinism.

  • C++

    Bjarne Stroustrup. Again aimed for general purpose.

  • Delphi

    Apple. Derives off Pascal.

  • Python

    Guido van Rossum. Fewer lines of code.

  • Visual Basic

    Microsoft. Easy to learn, derives from BASIC.

  • Java

    James Gosling and Sun Microsystems. Designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible.

  • Javascript

    Brandan Eich. Part Of web browsers

  • PHP

    Rasmus Lerdorf. Web development.