Programming Languages

  • Plankalkul

    Plankalkul was created in 1948 by Konrad Zuse. This language was designed for engineer purposes.
  • Fortran

    Fortran was created in 1957 by John Backus. Fortran means Formula Translation. It was designed to translate math formulas into code easily.
  • MATH-MATIC

    MATH-MATIC was created in 1957 by Remington Rand. It was created for algebraic style expressions and floating point arithmetics.
  • Lisp

    Lisp was created in 1958 by John McCarthy. Lisp was created for mathematical formalism for reasoning about the use of recursion equations.
  • COBOL

    COBOL was created in 1959 by Grace Hopper. COBOL means Common Business Oriented Language. COBOL was made for a language that was sort of like english
  • RPG

    RPG was created in 1959 by IBM. It was created for high level programming for business applications.
  • BASIC

    BASIC was created in 1964 by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz. BASIC means Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. It was made for high level programming but easy to use
  • LOGO

    LOGO was created in 1967 by Daniel Bobrow. It was created as an educational programming language.
  • B

    B was created in 1969 by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. The main purpose of B was to do system development
  • Pascal

    Pascal was crated in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth. It was named after french mathematician. Was created to encourage good programming practices using structured programming
  • C

    C was created in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie and Bell Labs. It was designed to provide low level access to memory to provide language that constructs the maps efficiently to machine instructors
  • ML

    ML was created in 1973 by Robin Milner.ML stands for metalanguage. It was created to develop proof tactics in the lcm therom proover
  • SQL

    SQL was created in 1974 by IBM developers. SQL stands for structured query language. Created to store manipulate and sort query data.
  • ADA

    ADA was created in 1980 by a guy named Jean Ichbiah. The purpose of ada is for high integrity and safety critical plans/ideas.
  • c++

    C++ was created in 1983 by Bjarne Stroustrup. It was designed for system programming and embedding with performance efficiency and flexibility.
  • Python

    Python was created in 1991 by Guido Van Rossum. Its design philosophy emphasizes code readability.
  • Visual Basic

    Visual Basic was created in 1991 by Microsoft. Visual Basic is a third party integrated development enviroment
  • Delphi

    Delphi was created in 1995 by Borland. It was created to make windows programming easier
  • Java

    Java was made in 1995 by James Gosling. Specifically designed to have few implementation dependencies.
  • JavaScript

    JavaScript was created in 1995 by a person named Brendan Eich. JavaScript was created because he was hired to make a programming language for a browser.
  • PHP

    PHP was created in 1995 by Rasmus Lerdorf. PHP stands for hypertext processor. It was designed for web development