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Major Programming Language History

Created by Harbinger22 on Feb 15, 2011

Last updated: 02/15/11 at 08:55 AM

• JAVA
  1995

  developed in 1995 by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems to be used with interactive television: Soon switched to easy to use computer language.

• VISUAL BASIC
  1991

  Developed in 1991 by Microsoft as a much simpler BASIC that any individual could learn and use easily. Derived from BASIC

• C++
  1983

  - Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup in 1979 as a C upgrade, it was released in 1983 as an independent program. Same uses as C but in much broader areas.

• ADA
  1980

  Developed in 1980 by Jean Ichbiah for the U.S. Department of Defense as a standard all-around program language. Named after Ada Lovelace, the first credited computer programmer.

• SQL
  1974

  developed by Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce of IBM in 1974. Stands for Structured Query Language.

• C
  1973

  Most common programming language. Developed by Dennis Ritchie in 1973 and named ‘C’ due to it being based off of ‘B’, a striped down BCPL.

• LOGO
  1967

  developed by Wally Feurzeig & Seymour Papert in 1967 as a language for functional programming; name comes from the Greek word ‘logos’, meaning word.

• BASIC
  1964

  Developed in 1964 by John Kemeny and Thomas Eugene. Stands for Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code and is used as a universal program for the non-science population.

• COBOL
  1959

  Developed in 1959 by a team of researchers from other branches and programming companies. Stands for Common Business-Oriented Language and is used for business and finance tasks.

• FORTRAN
  1957

  developed by John Backus of IBM in 1957. Common program used in nearly any field of computing.

• MATH-MATIC
  1957

  developed by the Rand Corporation in 1957; derived from A-0 for math-operating and problem solving.