History of Programming Languages
Following will discuss some of major developments in the history of
programming languages.
FORTRAN: stands for FORmula TRANslator.
Developed in 1955.Invented by
John Backus.
LISP: stands for LISt Processor.
Developed in 1958.Invented by John McCarthy.
COBOL: stands for COmmon Business Oriented Language.
Developed in 1959.Created by the Short Range
Committee.
BASIC: Stands for Beginners All purpose Symbolic
Instruction Code.
Developed in 1964.
C: An early systems programming language.
Developed between 1969 and 1973.
Developed by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson at
Bell Labs.
C++ C++ (old name C with Classes, Name Changed in
July 1983)
Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Labs during
1983 – 1985.
Visual Basic: developed in 1991, by Alan Cooper.
In 1995 many languages such as JAVA, Delphi (Object Pascal), JavaScript,
PHP were developed.
Current trend include C++, Visual Basic.Net, ASP.Net, Dart, Go, F#, Action
Script, PHP, Python, Ruby and so on.