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Plankalkul
Developed by Konrad Zuse for engineering purposes. Plankalkul means plan calculus. -
MATH-MATIC
Developed by Charles Katz for science and engineering purposes -
FORTRAN
Developed by John Backus for mathematical and engineering purposes. The name FORTRAN comes from FORmula TRANslation. -
Lisp
Developed by John McCarthy (MIT) for easy manipulation of data strings. Lisp gets its name from "list processing". -
COBOL
Developed by Grace Hopper for business/administrative purposes.COBOL is an acronym for Common Business Oriented Language -
RPG
Developed by IBM, purpose is report-building program, acronym for Report Program Generator -
BASIC
Developed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz. Used by students to write simple programs. BASIC stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. -
LOGO
Developed by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon. Purpose is generating basic shapes and functional programming. Acronym is Logic Oriented Graphic Oriented -
B
Developed by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie. Created for non-numeric system programming. -
ML
Developed by Robin Milner (University of Edinburgh) to operate on formal languages. ML is an acronym for Meta Language. -
PASCAL
Developed by Niklaus Wirth. Primary purpose is for teaching programming. PASCAL is an acronym for Preservation And Storage Center For Academic Libraries -
C
Developed by Dennis M. Ritchie as general-purpose program for scripting system applications. -
C++
Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup. Purpose is fast, portable programs. -
SQL
Developed by Raymond Boyce and Donald Chamberlin (IBM) to perform tasks like updating and retrieving data from databases. Acronym for Structured Query Language. -
ADA
Developed by Dr. Jean Ichbiah (CII-Honeywell-Bull), created for large, long-lived applications. The name ADA is in honor of Ada Lovelace. -
Python
Developed by Guido van Rossum for general purposes. -
Visual Basic
Developed by Alan Cooper (Microsoft). Purpose is to be able to drag and drop to modify code, efficiency. -
PHP
Developed by Rasmus Lerdorf, suited for server-side web development. Originally an acronym for Personal Home Page. Now, acronym for Hypertext Preprocessor. -
Javascript
Developed by Brendan Eich (Netscape Communications Corp.) for attractive and responsive web development. -
Delphi
Developed by Anders Hejlsberg for object oriented design -
Java
Developed by James Gosling (Sun Microsystems) for general purposes and cross-platform programming.