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Discover the pioneers behind popular programming languages, frameworks, and CMS platforms, along with their countries of origin. Explore how these technologies shaped modern software development and web solutions.
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Type |
Name |
Inventor(s) / Organization |
Country |
Year |
Description / Purpose |
Low-Level Language |
Assembly Language |
Kathleen Booth |
United Kingdom |
1947 |
First low-level symbolic language for computers. |
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High-Level Language |
FORTRAN |
John Backus (IBM) |
USA |
1957 |
First high-level programming language for scientific computation. |
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LISP |
John McCarthy |
USA |
1958 |
Designed for AI and symbolic computation. |
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COBOL |
Grace Hopper |
USA |
1959 |
Business-oriented programming language. |
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ALGOL |
International Committee |
Europe |
1958 |
Foundation for many modern programming languages. |
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BASIC |
John Kemeny & Thomas Kurtz |
USA |
1964 |
Beginner-friendly language for education. |
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C |
Dennis Ritchie (Bell Labs) |
USA |
1972 |
Foundation of modern programming languages. |
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C++ |
Bjarne Stroustrup |
Denmark |
1983 |
Object-oriented extension of C. |
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Python |
Guido van Rossum |
Netherlands |
1991 |
Easy-to-learn, powerful for AI, data, and web. |
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Perl |
Larry Wall |
USA |
1987 |
Text manipulation and scripting. |
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Java |
James Gosling (Sun Microsystems) |
Canada / USA |
1995 |
Platform-independent programming language. |
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PHP |
Rasmus Lerdorf |
Greenland / Canada |
1995 |
Web development and dynamic websites. |
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JavaScript |
Brendan Eich (Netscape) |
USA |
1995 |
Web interactivity and front-end scripting. |
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Ruby |
Yukihiro Matsumoto |
Japan |
1995 |
Elegant and simple programming language. |
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C# |
Anders Hejlsberg (Microsoft) |
Denmark / USA |
2000 |
Object-oriented language for .NET. |
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Swift |
Apple Inc. |
USA |
2014 |
iOS and macOS app development. |
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Kotlin |
JetBrains |
🇨🇿 Czech Republic |
2016 |
Official Android development language. |
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Go (Golang) |
Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike & Ken Thompson (Google) |
USA |
2009 |
Efficient systems programming language. |
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Rust |
Graydon Hoare (Mozilla) |
Canada |
2010 |
Safe, concurrent systems programming language. |
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SQL |
Donald D. Chamberlin & Raymond F. Boyce |
USA |
1974 |
Language for managing databases. |
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R |
Ross Ihaka & Robert Gentleman |
New Zealand |
1993 |
Data analysis and statistics. |
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Scala |
Martin Odersky |
Switzerland |
2004 |
Combines OOP and functional programming. |
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TypeScript |
Anders Hejlsberg (Microsoft) |
Denmark / USA |
2012 |
Superset of JavaScript with static types. |
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Dart |
Lars Bak & Kasper Lund (Google) |
Denmark / USA |
2011 |
Used for Flutter-based app development. |
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Frameworks |
Node.js |
Ryan Dahl |
USA |
2009 |
JavaScript runtime for backend development. |
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React.js |
Jordan Walke (Meta / Facebook) |
USA |
2013 |
Library for building UI components. |
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Vue.js |
Evan You |
China |
2014 |
Progressive JavaScript framework. |
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Angular |
Misko Hevery (Google) |
USA |
2010 |
Frontend framework for web apps. |
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Next.js |
Guillermo Rauch (Vercel) |
Uruguay |
2016 |
React framework for SSR and static sites. |
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Svelte |
Rich Harris |
United Kingdom |
2016 |
Compiles components into optimized JS. |
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Express.js |
TJ Holowaychuk |
Canada |
2010 |
Lightweight web app framework for Node.js. |
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Laravel |
Taylor Otwell |
USA |
2011 |
Elegant PHP framework for web apps. |
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Django |
Adrian Holovaty & Simon Willison |
United Kingdom |
2005 |
Python web framework for rapid development. |
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Flutter |
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USA |
2017 |
Cross-platform mobile app framework. |
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React Native |
Facebook (Meta) |
USA |
2015 |
Mobile app framework using React. |
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CMS Platforms |
WordPress |
Matt Mullenweg & Mike Little |
USA / UK |
2003 |
Most popular open-source CMS built in PHP. |
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Joomla |
Open Source Matters |
Global |
2005 |
PHP-based CMS for complex websites. |
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Drupal |
Dries Buytaert |
Belgium |
2001 |
Customizable CMS for developers. |
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Magento |
Varien Inc. (Roy Rubin & Yoav Kutner) |
USA |
2008 |
E-commerce CMS built in PHP. |
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Shopify |
Tobias Lütke, Daniel Weinand & Scott Lake |
Canada |
2006 |
SaaS-based e-commerce platform. |
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Wix |
Avishai Abrahami, Nadav Abrahami & Giora Kaplan |
Israel |
2006 |
Drag-and-drop website builder. |
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Squarespace |
Anthony Casalena |
USA |
2003 |
Hosted website and e-commerce builder. |
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Blogger |
Evan Williams & Pyra Labs |
USA |
1999 |
One of the earliest blogging platforms. |
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Ghost |
John O’Nolan |
United Kingdom |
2013 |
Modern open-source blogging platform (Node.js). |
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TYPO3 |
Kasper Skårhøj |
Denmark |
1998 |
Enterprise-level PHP CMS. |
