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Plankalkul
Designed by Konrad Zuse - Designed for engineering purposes - German for “plan Calculus” -
FORTAN
Designed by John Backus - Designed to allow easy translation of math formulas into code. - FORmula TRANslation -
MATH-MATIC
Designed by Remington Rand - Business oriented language - Not an acronym -
Lisp
Designed by John McCarthy - Processes lists of data - List Processing -
COBOL
Designed by Bob Bemer - Designed for business - common business-oriented language -
RPG
Designed by IBM - Originated as a report-building program - Stands for Report Program Generator -
BASIC
Designed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz - Used as a teaching tool - Stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code -
LOGO
Designed by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon - It's a simplified LISP dialect used to teach beginners - Derives from the Greek logos, meaning word or thought -
PASCAL
Designed by Niklaus Wirth - Used to teach structured programming - Named after the 17th century mathematician Blaise Pascal -
C
Designed by Dennis Ritchie - created for system programming language to write an operating system - Named C because it somewhat based and similar to B -
B
Designed by D. M. Ritchie and K. L. Thompson - Main purpose for non-numeric applications. - the name may be a contraction of BCPL -
ML
Designed by Robin Milner - ML is a statically-scoped functional programming language - Stands for meta-language -
SQL
Designed by Raymond Boyce and Donald Chamberlin - It is for accessing and organizing data - Stands for Structured Query Language -
C++
Designed by Bjarne Stroustrup - General-purpose programming language - Extension of C -
ADA
Created by a team led by Dr. Jean Ichbiah - The U.S. Department of Defense wanted to develop a centralized and standardized computer programming language - Named for Augusta Ada King, countess of Lovelace called the first computer programmer -
Python
Designed by Guido van Rossum - Used to write clear, logical code for small and large-scale projects - Named after the show Monty Python's Flying Circus. -
Visual Basic
Designed by Microsoft - designed to add objects and “event-driven” programming: buttons, menus, and other elements of graphical user interfaces - Not an acronym -
DELPHI
Designed by Anders Hejlsberg - object oriented programming language (OOP) - Detector with Lepton, Photon, and Hadron Identification. -
Java
Designed by James Gosling - Designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible - Not an acronym -
Javascript
Designed by Brendan Eich - A scripting language used to create and control dynamic website content - Not an acronym -
PHP
Designed by Rasmus Lerdorf - Designed for web development - stands for Hypertext Preprocessor it is a recursive acronym
Plankalkul - 1942 Konrad Zuse - Designed for engineering purposes - German for “plan Calculus”