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Plankalkul
Designed by Konrad Zuse. It allowed for the creation of procedures. Plankalkul is German for "plan calculus". -
MATH-MATIC
Designed by Remington Rand, it is used to compile programs. This was invented as an improvement for Fortran.
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Fortran
Designed by John Backus. It was created for programming scientific and mathematical applications. Fortran stands for formula translation. -
Lisp
Designed by John McCarthy. It was created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs. Lisp stands for list programming. -
RPG
Developed by IBM,
Initially created as a report-writing tool on card-input IBM mainframes.
RPG stands for Report Program Generator. -
COBOL
Designed by Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet, William Selden, Gertrude Tierney, and Mary K. Hawes. It was created for business, and administrative systems that are file run for companies and governments. COBOL stands for COmmon Business-Oriented Language. -
BASIC
Designed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz. It was created to give students in fields other than science and mathematics the opportunity to use computers. BASIC stands for "Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code". -
LOGO
Designed by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon. It was created as a tool for learning. Logo is Greek for word or thought. -
B
Designed by Ken Thompson. It was created for machine-independent applications or non-numeric applications. B could be derived from BCPL or Bon. -
PASCAL
Designed by Niklaus Wirth. It was created to implement and emphasize the orderly use of conditional and loop control structures. Pascal was named after the French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal. -
C
Designed by Dennis Ritchie. It was created with access to memory, simple set of keywords, and clean style, which made it suitable for operating system or compiler development. -
ML
It was designed by Robin Milner and his colleagues at the University of Edinburgh. It assigns the types of most expressions without needing explicit type annotations and it does not cause run time type errors. ML stands for meta language. -
SQL
Designed by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce.
Made for managing data held in a database management system. SQL stands for Structured Query Language. -
ADA
Designed by Jean Ichbiah. It was designed for code safety by using the compiler to find errors. ADA is named after Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer. -
C++
Designed by Bjarne Stroustrup. It was created to assist system programming and embedded, resource-constrained software and large systems, with performance, and efficiency. -
Python
Designed by Guido van Rossum. It is used for used for processing text, numbers, images, scientific data, etc. -
Visual Basic
Microsoft- created to make it easier to write programs for the Windows computer operating system -
PHP
Designed by Rasmus Lerdorf. It is used for server-side scripting. It can collect form data, generate dynamic page content, or send and receive cookies. PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor. -
Delphi
Designed by Borland company. It was created to help with the development of applications. -
Java
Designed by James Gosling. It is created to let application developers write once, run anywhere. This means that Java code can run on all platforms that support Java without the need for recompiling. -
Javascript
Designed by Brendan Eich. It creates interactive web pages and is an essential part of web applications.