Ancestry of PHP Expanded
- FORTRAN
- 1954
- FORmula TRANslation
- John W. Backus
- IBM
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- ALGOL58
- 1958
- ALGOrithmic Language
- Friedric L. Bauer
- Hermann Bottenburch
- Heinz Rutishauser
- Klaus Samelson
- John Backus
- Charles Katz
- Alan Perlis
- Joseph Henry Wegstein
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- ALGOL60
- 1960
- ALGOrithmic Language
- Friedrich L. Bauer
- Peter Naur
- Heinz Rutishauser
- Klaus Samelson
- Bernard Vauguois
- Adriaan Van Wijngaarden
- Michael Woodger
- John W. Backus
- Julien Green
- Charles Katz
- John McCarthy
- Alan J. Perlis
- Joseph Henry Wegstein
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- CPL
- 1963
- Combined Programming Language
- Christopher Strachey
- University of Cambridge
- University of London
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- BCPL
- 1967
- Basic Combined Programming Language
- Martin Richards
- University of Cambridge
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- B
- 1969
- Ken Thomspon
- Dennis Ritchie
- Bell Labs
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- C
- sh
- awk
- 1978
- Accronym for first letters of author's last names
- Alfred Aho
- Peter Weinberger
- Brian Kernighan
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- PERL
- 1987
- Doesn't actually stand for anything
- Larry Wall
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- PHP
- 1995
- PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (originally: Personal Home Page tools)
- Rasmus Lendorf
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Reference: History of Programming Languages Timeline from O’Reilly’s website