Programming Languages – Primary Uses

FORTRAN, LISP, COBOL 1957-1959• Supercomputing applications• AI development• Business software

Used By:

NASACredit Cards

ATMs

Fun Fact:The Terminator Movie used samples of COLBOL source code for he text shown in the Terminator’s vision display.

Pascal1970• Teaching Programming• Object Pascal (a derivative) – Used for Windows

application development

Used By:

Apple Lisa (1983)Skype

Creator:Niklaus Wirth

C1972• Cross-Platform programming• System programming• Unix programming• Computer Game development

Used By:

Unix (rewritten in C – 1973)Early WWW servers and clients

Creator:Dennis RitchieBell Labs

C++1983• Commercial application development• Embedded software• Server/Client application• Video Games

Used By:

AdobeGoogle ChromeMozilla Firefox

Microsoft Internet ExplorerCreator:Bjarne StroustrupBell Labs

Objective C1983• Apple programming

Used By:

Apple’s OS X iOS

Creator:Brad Cox and Tom LoveStepstone

Perl1987• CGI• Database application• System administration• Network programming• Graphic programming

Used By:

IMDbAmazonPriceline

TicketmasterCreator:

Larry WallUnisys

Python1991• Web applications• Software development• Information security

Used By:

GoogleYahooSpotify

Creator:Guido Van RossumCWI

Ruby1993• Web application development• Ruby on Rails

Used By:

TwitterHulu

Groupon

Creator:Yukihiro Matsumoto

Java1995• Network programming• Web application development• Software development• Graphical User Interface (GUI) developmentUsed By:

AndroidOS/apps

Creator:James GoslingSUN Microsystems

PHP 1995• Building/maintaining dynamic web pages• Server-side development

Used By:

FacebookWikipedia

DiggWordPress

JoomlaCreator:Rashmus Lerdorf

JAVASCRIPT1995• Dynamic web development• PDF document• Web browsers• Desktop widgets Used By:

GmailAdobe

PhotoshopMozilla Firefox

Creator:Brendan Eich

Netscape