Evolution of Programming Languages

Evolution of Programming Languages

Year	Programming Language Developed
Before 1950	The ENIAC coding system was primarily used in computing
1954-54	Fortran "0" was designed by a team at IBM. Fortran Implementation was developed by John Backus at IBM in 1957.
1956-58	John McCarthy came up with the concept of LISP.
1959	COBOL concept came up followed by its implementation that was developed by the Codasyl Committee in 1960. The LISP implementation was developed in 1959. LISP’s successor, Common LISP, came up later in 1984.
1964	IBM came up with PL/I concept. PL/M followed years later in 1972. 1964 also saw the development of BASIC by Kemeny and Kurtz.
1969	Ken Thompson developed the B language.
1970	This was when Pascal was developed.
1972	It was during 1972 that Smalltalk and Prolog were developed. One of the most important events in the history of computing was the development of C language. It was developed by Dennis Ritchie in 1972.
1975	Scheme, the successor of LISP came up in 1975 as also Modula, the successor of Pascal.
1978	SQL was developed at IBM in 1978.
1979	REXX and AWK came up in 1979.
1980-83	C with classes was developed in 1980. Objective-C came up in 1982. 1983 witnessed the development of C++, one of the very popular languages till date.
1985	PostScript and Object Pascal belong to 1985.
1987	Perl that derives some of its features from C, as also from AWK, sed and sh evolved in 1987.
1991	Van Rossum came up with Python. Visual Basic, developed by Alan Cooper, came up in the same year.
1993	Ruby, which is considered a successor of Smalltalk and Perl, came up in 1993.
1994	PHP was born in 1994.
1995	ColdFusion belongs to 1995. It was during this year that James Gosling at Sun Microsystems came up with Java.
1996	Javascript was born in this year. ECMAScript, its successor came up in 1997.
1999	XSLT, a language based on XML by the W3C and the Game Maker Language by Mark Overmars were born in 1999.
2000	The D language and C# came up in 2000.
2006	The development of Windows PowerShell by Microsoft was one of the significant events in computing that took place in 2006.