Inventors of top coding languages.
1. Java — James Gosling
Java is one of the most popular and successful programming languages. Dr. James Arthur Gosling has invented Java and is best known as the father of the Java programming language.
Java was developed and supported earlier by Sun Microsystem and now by Oracle, after their acquisition of Sun Microsystem in January 2010.
Java is created with mission WORA, “Write Once Run Anywhere” and the platform independence of Java is one of the pillars of its success in the enterprise world. To date, it is one of the most popular application programming languages.
2. C — Dennis Ritchie
Dennis Mac Alistair Ritchie, An American computer scientist, created the C programming language between 1967 and 1973 at AT& T Bell Labs.
C is still very popular and used extensively in System programming. It’s older than Java but still maintains its stronghold.
By the way, Dennis Ritchie has also created a world-famous UNIX operating system with his long-time colleague Ken Thompson.
If you compare his popularity with Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, he is nowhere, but if you compare Dennis’ contribution to the software world, he has no matching.
Every Programmer must know about Dennis Ritchie and his contribution to the programming world.
3. C++ — Bjarne Stroustrup
Bjarne Stroustrup, born 30 December 1950 in Aarhus, Denmark, is a Danish computer scientist, most notable for the creation and development of the widely-used C++ programming language.
C++, as the name suggested, is the next-generation language at the time C was popular. It comes with an object-oriented programming feature, which was considered phenomenal compared to the structural way of C programming.
Btw, C++ is still one of the common languages and is used extensively in the high-frequency trading world because of its close proximity to native Systems and popular object-oriented features.
4. Python — Guido van Rossum
Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Its syntax is said to be bright and expressive. Python is designed by Guido van Rossum of CWI.
In the United States, Python has actually replaced Java at the academic level, nowadays students are started learning to program using Python instead of C or Java, as was the case of the previous generation.
Python is used extensively in web application development, there are lots of python based web frameworks out there, software development, and information security. Python is also used extensively by tech giants like Google, Yahoo, and Spotify.
5. PHP — Rasmus Lerdorf
No matter how much you hate PHP, you just can’t ignore the fact that half of the internet is running on this beautiful internet language. PHP was initially created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995.
The first implementation of PHP is now produced by The PHP Group and serves as the formal reference to the PHP language.
At that time, PHP was a competitor to Microsoft’s Active Server Pages (ASP) server-side script engine and similar languages, like Java Server Pages (JSP), but gradually received better acceptance and is now installed on more than 20 million Web sites and 1 million Web servers.
It is also open source and used by internet giants like Facebook, Wikipedia, WordPress, and Joomla. PHP is used extensively to build dynamic web pages and server-side development.
6. JavaScript — Brendan Eich
If you ask me which language the winner is in the last 5 to 10 years, I would say JavaScript. It has clearly dominated the client-side scripting space in the recent past with libraries like jQuery and now moving to Server-side development with libraries like node.js.
JavaScript is a prototype-based scripting language that is dynamic, weakly typed, and has first-class functions, designed by Brendan Eich and developed by Netscape Communications Corporation.
JavaScript is used extensively for client-side scripting, validation, animation, event capturing, form submission, and other everyday tasks. It runs inside the browser and is used by almost all websites, e.g. Gmail, Mozilla Firefox, etc.
