Knowing the history of programming languages is crucial because it helps us to understand the basics well. This article discusses the brief history of your favourite programming languages. Do check it out.
There is near general agreement that in a technology-driven world, everyone should be studying coding. It is not only used to create something unique but the major benefits of studying coding extend beyond technical abilities.
We will discuss the importance of programming languages later but do you know the exact history and origin of the programming languages?
I am assuming that you have encountered many challenges while learning coding languages but knowing their roots is also quite challenging. Therefore TechGig is making it simple for you. Now you have the exact and accurate history of your favorite programming language and flaunt it in your community.
1800
This year, Joseph Marie Jacquard created the first ever heavily multi-threaded processing unit by teaching how to read punch cards.
1842
It is said that this year, Ada Lovelace started writing something in a notebook and that thing later be known as the first published computer program.
1936
Alan Turing and Alonzo Church invent everything. It is also said that they invented computers back then.
1957
John Backus creates FORTRAN which becomes the first language that is actually useful for programmers to use.
1959
Grace Hopper invents the first enterprise-ready business-oriented programming language and later called it “common business-oriented language” or COBOL for short.
1964
John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz invented their own programming language BASIC.
1970
Niklaus Wirth made Pascal and other programming languages.
1972
Dennis Ritchie made C and then added segmentation faults and other developer-friendly features later.
1980
Alan Kay invented object-oriented programming and calls it Smalltalk.
1987
Larry Wall created Perl programming language this year.
1986
Brac Box and Tol Move made an unreadable version of C based on Smalltalk which they call Objective-C.
1983
Bjarne Stroustrup added a few features to the C programming language and named it C++.
1993
Roberto Ierusalimschy created Lua in Brazil.
1994
Rasmus Lerdorf first released his dotfiles on the web and then a programming language called PHP.
1995
Yukihiro Matsumoto created Ruby to make programmers happy.
1995
Brendan Eich first created a language that will be used to power every single web browser. He first called it LiveScript but Java became popular during the code review so they named it JavaScript.
1996
James Gosling invents Java.
2001
Anders Hejlsberg re-invents Java and calls it C# because programming in C feels cooler than Java.
2005
David Hanselmeyer Hansen creates a web framework for Ruby called Ruby on Rails.
2009
Ken Thompson and Rob Pike decide to make a language like C, and they created Gophers called it Go programming language
2010
Graydon Hoare created Rust.
2012
In order to write C# in web browsers, Anders Hjelsberg created TypeScript, which is like JavaScript but has more Java.
2013
CoffeeScript, which Jeremy Ashkenas developed in 2013, compiles to JavaScript but seems more like Ruby.
2014
Swift was created by Chris Lattner with the major design objective of not becoming Objective-C; in the end, it resembles Java.
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