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Plankalkul
Plankalkul was developed by Konrad Zuse. It was developed to simplify the basic machine code. -
FORTRAN
FORTRAN, or FORmula TRANslation, was developed by John Backus. It was developed to allow math formulas to be easily translated into code. -
MATH-MATIC
MATH-MATIC, or the Algebraic Translator 3, was developed by Charles Katz and Grace Hopper. It was developed to improve on FORTRAN and to be the first English-language data processing compiler. -
Lisp
Lisp, or list processing, was developed by John McCarthy. It was developed to explore the theoretical foundations of the Turing-complete algorithm language. -
COBOL
COBOL, or Common Business Oriented Language, was developed by Grace Hopper. It was designed for higher-level programming in business applications. -
RPG
RPG, or Report Program Generator, was developed by IBM. It was developed as an alternative for the punch card processing system. -
BASIC
BASIC, or Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, was developed by John George Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz. It was developed as a tool for students to write simpler computer programs. -
Logo
Logo was developed by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon. It was developed to teach programming concepts related to Lisp. -
B
B was developed by Dennis M. Ritchie and Ken Thompson. It was developed for non-numeric applications like system programming. -
Pascal
Pascal was developed by Niklaus Wirth. It was developed to influence good programming practices using structured programming. -
C
C was developed by Dennis Ritchie. It was developed to overcome the issues found in previous programs and to be used in the UNIX operating system. -
ML
ML, or Meta Language, was developed by Robin Milner and his colleagues. It was developed to be a modular and functional programming language. -
SQL
SQL, or Structured Query Language, was developed by Raymond Boyce and Donald Chamberlin. It was developed to communicate between databases. -
C++
C++ was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup. It was developed as an extension of the C language to make the programming experience easier and more pleasant for the programmer. -
ADA
ADA was developed by Jean Ichbiah and S. Tucker Taft. It was developed for long-lived applications that required reliability and efficiency. -
Python
Python was developed by Guido van Rossum. It was developed to increase the ability to easily read the program and uses a notable amount of whitespace. -
Java
Java was developed by James Gosling. It was developed in an effort to create a language that allowed consumer electronics to communicate with one another. -
Visual Basic
Visual Basic was developed by Alan Cooper. It was developed to make it easier to write programs for Windows computer operating systems. -
PHP
PHP, or Personal Home Page, was developed by Rasmus Lerdorf. It was developed to for Static websites, Dynamic websites, or Web applications. -
Delphi
Delphi was developed by Anders Hejlsberg. It was developed for various applications including database solutions and mobile applications. -
JavaScript
JavaScript was developed by Brendan Eich. It was developed so that the first web browser, Netscape, would have a specific programming language.