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Plankalkul
Designed by Konrad Zuse, designed originally for engineering purpose -
Fortran
Developed by IBM, Fortran stands for FORmula TRANslator, designed for scientific and numeric computing -
MATH-MATIC
Designed by Remington Rand, was intended as an improvement over FORTRAN, -
LIsp
Designed by John McCarthy, the name derives from LISt Processor, originally created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs, influenced by the notation of Alonzo Church's lambda calculus -
COBOL
Designed for business-oriented applications, COBOL stands for Common Business Oriented Language, created by Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves -
RPG
Developed by IBM, primary purpose was as a tool to replicate punched card processing, RPG stands for Report Program Generator -
BASIC
Stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, created by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz, designed to allow students to write mainframe computer programs for the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System -
LOGO
Designed by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, originally created to teach concepts of programming related to Lisp -
B
Designed by Ken Thompson, designed for recursive, non-numeric, and machine independent applications. The name "B" possibly derived from "BCPL" which was the language "B" was based from -
PASCAL
Developed by Niklaus Wirth, originally made to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring -
C
Designed to provide low-level access to memory, to provide language constructs that map efficiently to machine instructions, and to require minimal run-time support, created by Dennis Ritchie -
ML
Developed by Robin Milner, original purpose was to develop proof tactics in the LCF Theorem Prover, ML stands for Meta Language -
SQL
Designed by ISO/IEC and Donald D. Chamberlin, originally designed to manipulate and retrieve data stored in IBM’s original quasi relational database management system, SQL stands for Structured Query Language -
ADA
Team led by Jean Ichbbiah, designed to improve support for systems, numerical, financial, and object oriented programming. The program was named after the first computer programmer. -
C++
Created by Bjarne Stroustrup, designed to improve the original language "C" -
Python
Developed by Guido Van Rossum, primary purpose was as a general purpose language that is widely used as an extension language -
Visual Basic
Developed by Microsoft, designed to be easy to use and to be an educational language -
PHP
Developed by Rasmus Lerdorf, designed for web design, PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor -
Delphi
Developed by Embarcadero Technologies, originally developed by Borland as a rapid application development tool for Windows -
Java
Designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible, created by James Gosling, -
Javascript
Designed by Brendan Eich, similar to Java except they are two completely different languages and they differ in design