Programming Languages
Year:1957
Language:FORTRAN
FORmula TRANslation, is the Oldest Language still in use. Created by JohnBackus, The Language was developed to perform high-level scientific, mathematical, statistical computations
The language is still used in aerospace, automotive industries, government, and research institutions.
Used by,
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
Year:1959
Language:COBOL
Common Business Oriented Language is behind the majority of business transaction sysytem running credit card Processing, ATM's, Telephone and cell calls, Hospital system, Government, automotive system, and Traffic signal system. The COBOL development team, lead by Dr.Grace Murray Hopper, set out to create a uniform, user-friendly language for business transactions.
Used by,
UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE
Year:1964
Language:BASIC
Developed by students at Darthmouth college, Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code was designed to be a simplified language for those without a strong technical or mathematical background. A modified version , written by Bill Gates and Paul Allen become Microsoft's first product
It was sold to M.I.T.S for the Altair.
Basic has over 2million lines of code in use, in 1975 there were only 4,000.
Used by,
INTEGER BASIC RAN THE ORIGINAL APPLE ll in 1977
Year:1969
Language: C
C was Developed between 1969 and 1973 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix Operating System. It was named "C" because its features were derived from an earlier language called "B".
C had become powerful enough that most of the Unix Kernal was rewritten in C - one of the first operating system Kernals implemented in a language other then assembly.
Used by,
LINUX TODAY IS BASED ON C
Year:1970
Language: PASCAL
The language was names for Blaise Pascal, Credited for inventing the first adding machine in 1961. Niklaus Wirth created pascal as a teachir tool and it grew to ito widespread commercial use.
Used by,
SKYPE(OBJECT PASCAL)
Year:1983
Language: C++
From Bell Laps, Bjarne Stroustrup modified the C language to C++ and created what many consider the most popular programming language ever.
It's been listed in the top ten programming languages since 1986 and achieved hall of Fame status in 2003.
Used by,
ADOBE PDF READER, FIREFOX
Year:1987
Language:PERL
Larry Wall, a UNIX programmer, created Perl after attempting to extract data for a report and finding UNIX couldn't perform the operations he needed.
Practical Extraction Report Language was described by its inventor as a language for "getting your job done".
Used by,
CRAIGSLIST
Year: 1991
Language: PYTHON
Monty Python served as the inspiration for the name of this language. Guido Van Rossum developed Python to fix problems in the ABC language and continues to serve as its lead designer.
The Mac OS/X uses about 90 million lines of Code.
Used by,
GOOGLE SEARCH, YOUTUBE, NASA
Year:1993
Language: RUBY
Yukihiro "matz" Matsumoto named Ruby for July's birthstone. HE developed the language by blending parts of his favorite languages, Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, and Lisp
Used by,
BASECAMP
Year: 1995
Language: PHP
Rasmus Lerdorf developed PHP to replace a set Perl scripts used to maintain his personal home page.
Today, PHP has grown in to an integral part of web Architecture running on over 20 million websites.
A more 15 million lines of codes ran Windows 95.
Windows 7 uses more then 50 million lines of code.
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Year:1995
Language:JAVA
A team of Sun Microsystems developers lead by James Gosling created JAVA to run set top boxes for interactive televition.
Java now runs on over 1.1 billion PC's Worldwide and many websites can't function with out it.
Used by,
2004 MARS ROVERS
Year: 1995
Language:JAVASCRIPT
Java and Javascript are unrelated and have very different semantics.
JavaScript was originally developed by Brendan Eich of Netscapt under the name Mocha. Javascript Uses Syntax influenced by that of C.
Althought meant to run on the client(browser) it is now finding use on the server as node.js.
Also, AJAX is dependent on JavaScript.
Used by,
RACKSPACE(CLIENT SIDE)
Year: 2005
Language: RUBY ON RAILS
Ruby on Rails was extracted by David Heinemeier Hansson from his work on Basecamp, a project management tool by 37signals.
Hansson first released Ruby on Rails as open source in July 2004, but did not share commit rights to the project until Feb. 2005.
It is now on version 3.2.14 and has more then 1800 contributors.
A single game Application for the iPhone uses around 2million lines of code.
