What are the computer programming languages and what year were they introduced?

Answer 1

A Programming Language is a way by which we can code some pre programmed instructions for a computer to execute.
There are many programming languages like Java, C, C++ etc. and introduced at different years starting from around 1946 (with computer). Which one are you interested in? Please be specific.

Answer 2

(A quick note to the first answerer: Most people credit the first "computer" as being Charle's Babbages "analytical engine" which was never actually built. He invented it and the language for it. Lady Ada Lovelace is often credited as the first programmer, and the Ada language is named after her, but it was babbage that designed the language. During WWII, however, the majority of computer programmers were women.)

There are thousands of computer languages, although few are in common use today. You can find a good history on wikipedia. That aside, here's the information for the major languages:

1. Machine language/Assembly language. Very terse machine specific langugages. These languages have been around as long as computers.

2. Fortran, 1954. This was the first "real" programming language and was written in 1954 for (I believe) the IBM 360. Fortran has grown significantly since then and is still in use. Fortran was designed for math and scientific use. Modern fortran doesn't look a whole lot like the 1954 version.

3. ALGOL, 1956. ALGOL is no longer in use, but I'm putting it on this list anyways because it was the direct forrunner of Pascal, VB, and C (and from C, Java, C++, C#, etc.).

4. COBOL, 1954. Cobol was written as a buisness-oriented language in 1954 and is still in use today, although pretty much exclusively in government agencies. I have a friend who writes COBOL for the state, but most programmers shun this language for many reasons.

5. BASIC, 1964. Dont' confuse this with Visual Basic, which uses some of BASIC's syntax but gets its structure from better sources.

6. Pascal, 1970. A great well-rounded language. Today, this is used extensively as Delphi.

7. C, 1972. C is still used today, although most C programmers have moved to C++, which is closely related. C is very fast and has a lot of flexibility that programmers like. The UNIX operating system helped make C popular.

8. C++, 1983. Bjarn Stroustrup took C and added some extensions for object-oriented programming. C++ is the most popular language out there for creating applications.

9. Visual Basic, 1991? This took BASIC and modernized it. It gave BASIC structure, functions and parameters, and modularity. It also made it really easy to create graphical Windows applications. I don't think Microsoft knew how popular VB would become.

10. Java, 1991. Java is derived from C++ with some modern additions. The idea here was a language that was independent of any platform. You could write a program on one Java platform and run it on any other Java platform. At least, that was the idea. It was never perfect. Java is frequently used in Web development and very common in the banking industry. Javascript is a stripped-down version of Java used primarily for web browsers.

10. C#, 2000. C# (pronounced C Sharp) gives C++ a modern workover. Microsoft is pushing C# as a replacement for visual basic and a direct competitor for Java. It's much easier to learn and develop in than C++, although perhaps harder than VB in some ways. It's pretty versitile and more appealing to professional programmers than VB.

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

They are actually called machine language and they are the language the computer sees or changes the data that is input into it. The first machines were introduced around the 1822. So from there till 1947, the machine language may have been invented anytime.

Answer 4

there are way too many to name. but did you know that the very first one was developed by a woman?

Answer 5

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_programming_languages