Programming Languages Timeline

  • Plankalkul

    It was designed and developed by Konrad Zuse.
    a programming language designed for engineering purposes.
  • Fortran

    It was designed and developed by John Backus and IBM.
    its a general purpose, imperative programming language that is usually used for numeric computation and scientific computing.
  • MATH-MATIC

    It was designed and developed by Remington Rand.
    It was used as a Algebraic Translator.
  • Lisp

    it was designed and developed by John McCarthy, Steve Russell, Timothy P. Hart, and Mike Levin.
    It was originally created to be used as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs. then It quickly became the favored programming language for artificial intelligence research
  • COBOL

    an acronym for common business-oriented language.
    COBOL is primarily used in business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments.
  • RPG

    Means Report Program Generator.
    Developed by IBM.
    it is a high-level programming language for business applications.
  • BASIC

    BASIC stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
    John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz Were the designers.
    It was meant to be a very simple language to learn and also one that would be easy to translate.
  • LOGO

    it was designed and developed by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert.
    It was a powerful programming language but was easier to learn so it was used for novice programmers to learn.
  • B

    It is the work of Ken Thompson with Dennis Ritchie.
    B is a computer language intended for recursive, primarily non-numeric applications
  • PASCAL

    It was designed and developed by Niklaus Wirth.
    it was designed as a small, efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.
  • C

    It was designed by Dennis Ritchie.
    was used to re-implement Unix operating system. It has become one of the most widely used programming languages of all time
  • ML

    Stands for Meta-Language.
    It was designed and developed by Robin Milner & others at the University of Edinburgh.
    its a general purpose functional programming language.
  • SQL

    means Structured Query Language.
    it was designed and developed by Donald D. Chamberlin, Raymond F. Boyce, and ISO/IEC.
    it is a special-purpose domain-specific language used in programming and designed for managing data held in a relational database management system, or for stream processing in a relational data stream management system.
  • ADA

    Ada was originally designed by a team led by Jean Ichbiah of CII Honeywell Bull under contract to the United States Department of Defense. Ada was named after Ada Lovelace.
    Ada is designed for development of very large software systems
  • C++

    It was designed by Bjarne Stroustrup.
    It was designed with a bias toward system programming and embedded, resource-constrained and large systems, with performance, efficiency and flexibility of use as its design highlights.
  • Visual Basic

    It was designed and developed by Microsoft.
    Visual Basic was designed to accommodate a steep learning curve.it is a third-generation event-driven programming language and integrated development environment.
  • Python

    It was designed and developed by Guido van Rossum and Python Software Foundation.
    Its a widely used high-level programming language used for general-purpose programming.
  • Delphi

    it is a programming language and software development kit.
    it was originally developed by Borland software company.
  • Java

    It was designed and developed by James Gosling and Sun Micro systems.
    it is a general purpose computer programming language that is concurrent, class based, object oriented, its mostly used for client-server web applications.
  • Javascript

    designed by and developed by Brendan Eich, Netscape Communications Corporation, Mozilla Foundation, and Ecma International.
    JavaScript is most commonly used as a client side scripting language.
  • PHP

    it used to stand for Personal Home Page. now it stands for Hypertext Preprocessor.
    It was designed and developed by Rasmus Lerdorf, The PHP Development Team, and Zend Technologies.
    it is a server-side scripting language designed primarily for web development.