


The original BASIC programming language was developed by John Kemeny, Mary Keller, and Thomas Kurtz, and was introduced to the public on May 1, 1964. The second-oldest programming language, LISP was developed by John McCarthy and was first used in 1958.ĬOBOL started being developed in 1959 by Grace Hopper and Bob Bemer. It was developed by John Backus and others at IBM. One of the first programming languages, FORTRAN, was introduced to the public on October 15, 1956. The Hollerith tabulating machine was invented by Herman Hollerith in 1889, allowing for data to be programmatically counted and tabulated. In 1843, she described an algorithm to compute Bernoulli numbers using the Analytical Engine. Ada Lovelace is credited as being the first person to describe or write a computer program.
