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Timeline: The History of Programming, Markup and Scripting Languages
The history of computer sciences has been filled with many creative inventions and intriguing people. Here are some of the milestones and achievements in the field of computer programming and languages.
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al-Khowarizmi, Mohammed ibn-Musa develops a treatise on algebra, his name allegedly giving rise to the term algorithm.
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1843
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Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace, programs Charles Babbage's design of the Analytical Engine.
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1945
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Plankalkul is developed by Konrad Zuse.
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1953
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Sort-Merge Generator is created by Betty Holberton.
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1957
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FORTRAN is devised for IBM by John Backus and team of programmers.
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FLOW-MATIC is crafted for Remington-Rand's UNIVAC by Grace Hopper.
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1958
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LISP is produced by John McCarthy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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1960
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ALGOL is the result of work done by the ALGOL Committee in the ALGOL 60 Report.
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COBOL is formulated by the CODASYL Committee, initiated by the the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)
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1961
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JOSS is originated by the RAND Corporation.
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GPSS (General Purpose Simulation System) is invented by Geoffrey Gordon with IBM.
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RPG (Report Program Generator) is unveiled by IBM.
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APL (A Programming Language) is designed by Kenneth Iverson with IBM.
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1963
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SNOBOL is developed by David Farber, Ralph Griswold, and Ivan Polonsky at Bell Laboratories.
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1964
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BASIC is originated by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth.
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PL/I is announced by IBM.
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Simula I is produced by Kristen Nygaard and Ole-Johan Dahl at the Norwegian Computing Center.
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1967
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Simula 67 is created by Kristen Nygaard and Ole-Johan Dahl at the Norwegian Computing Center.
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LOGO is devised by Seymour Papert at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
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1971
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Pascal is constructed by Niklaus Wirth at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich.
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1973
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C developed by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Laboratories.
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Smalltalk is invented by Alan Kay at Xerox's PARC (Palo Alto Research Center).
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1980
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Ada is developed for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).
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1985
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C++ is created by Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Laboratories.
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1986
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SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) is developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
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1987
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Perl is constructed by Larry Wall.
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1991
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Visual Basic is launched by the Microsoft Corporation.
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HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is originated by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN (Organization Europeene pour la Recherche Nucleaire).
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1993
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Mosaic is created by Marc Andreesen and Eric Bina for the National Center for Computing Applications (NCCA) at the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign.
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1995
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Java is crafted by James Gosling of Sun Microsystems.
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A written specification of VRML (Virtual Reality Markup Language) is drafted by Mark Pesce, Tony Parisi, and Gavin Bell.
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1996
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Javascript is developed by Brendan Eich at Netscape Communications co-announced by Netscape and Sun Microsystems.
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1997
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VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language), developed by the Web3D Consortium, becomes an international standard.
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1998
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XML (Extensible Markup Language) is originated by a working group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
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Timeline: The History of Programming, Markup and Scripting Languages
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