programming languages timeline

  • Plankalkul

    Means Plan Calculus in english. Designed by Konrad Zuse for engineering purposes
  • fortran

    Short for formula translation. Was designed by IBM for scientific computing and numeric computations.
  • MATH-MATIC

    Designed by Charles Katz. Was made as an algebraic translator for UNIVAC I and II.
  • Lisp

    Designed by john McCarthy. The second oldest high level program language. Was made for practical mathematical notation for programs.
  • COBOL

    An acronym for common business-oriented language. Was deisgned by CODASYL (Conference/Committee on Data Systems Languages). Was made for business use.
  • RPG

    Designed by IBM. Was made for a report program generator.
  • BASIC

    An acronym for (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code).Designed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz. Was made so students in college and not in the science or math field can use a computer.
  • LOGO

    Designed by Daniel Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon. Was made as a educational program
  • B

    Designed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. Was designed for non-numeric, machine independent applications.
  • C

    Designed by Dennis Ritchie. Was made as a general purpose language and supports structured programming
  • PASCAL

    Designed by Niklaus Wirth. Made to practice with programming.
  • ML

    Stands for MetaLanguage. Designed by Robin Milner. Was made to prove tactics in the LCF theorem prover.
  • SQL

    Stands for (Structured Query Language). Designed by Donald D.Chamberlin. It is a special purpose language that is for managing data held in relational database management system.
  • ADA

    Named after Ada Lovelace, was designed by Jean Ichbiah and his team. It was made for the DoD (united states department of defence)
  • C++

    Designed by Bjarne Stroustrup. Was made as a general purpose programming language, has generic programming feature, low-level memory manipulation
  • Python

    Designed by Guido van Rossum. Was made for emphasize code readability.
  • Visual Basic

    Designed by Microsoft. Made for beginners, and enables the rapid application development of applications.
  • java

    Designed by James Gosling. Was made for a general purpose language so that you can write something one place and find it anywhere that has java.
  • JavaScript

    Designed by Brendan Eich. Made for helping with web browsers, gaming and other high level dynamic things.
  • PHP

    Originally stood for (Personal Home Page), now stands for (Hypertext Preprocessor). Designed by Rasmus Lerdorf. Was made as a serve side scrpting language for web development but it can also be used as a general purpose.
  • Delphi

    Designed by Embarcadero Technologies. It is like pascal, it is a software development kit for different platform applications.