diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index db5b908..8794a81 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -3,60 +3,60 @@ Programming Language Timeline History of programming languages -## 1972 C +## `1972` C Dennis Ritchie C is a general-purpose programming language. It was created in the 1970s by Dennis Ritchie and remains very widely used and influential. -## 1983 Objective-C +## `1983` Objective-C Brad Cox and Tom Love created Objective-C as the main language used for writing Apple software -## 1986 Erlang +## `1986` Erlang [Erlang](https://www.erlang.org/) is a general-purpose, concurrent, functional high-level programming language, and a garbage-collected runtime system. -## 1983 C++ +## `1983` C++ Bjarne Stroustrup created C++, which is an extension of the C programming language. This is one of the most used languages in the world -## 1991 Python +## `1991` Python Guido Van Rossum developed Python, which is a simplified computer language that is easy to read -## 1991 Visual Basic +## `1991` Visual Basic Microsoft developed Visual Basic, which enabled programmers to select and change specific chunks of code with a drag-and-drop process -## 1995 JAVA +## `1995` JAVA Sun Microsystems developed Java, originally intended to be used with hand-held devices -## 1995 PHP +## `1995` PHP Rasmus Lerdorf developed PHP, mainly for Web development. PHP continues to be widely used in Web development today -## 1995 Ruby +## `1995` Ruby Yukihiro Matsumoto developed Ruby as an all-purpose programming language, ideal for many programming jobs. Ruby is widely used in the development of Web applications -## 1995 JavaScript +## `1995` JavaScript Brendan Eich developed JavaScript to enhance Web browser interactions -## 2000 C# +## `2000` C# Microsoft developed C# as a combination of C++ and Visual Basic. C# is similar to Java in some ways -## 2003 Scala +## `2003` Scala Martin Odersky created Scala as a programing language that combines aspects of functional programming -## 2009 GO +## `2009` GO Google developed Go to solve issues that commonly occur with large software systems -## 2014 Swift +## `2014` Swift Apple developed Swift to replace C, C++, and Objective-C \ No newline at end of file