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Plankalkul
-Developed by Konrad Zuse
-Designed for engineering purposes
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Fortran
-Developed by John Backus
-Originally developed for scientific and engineering applications, Fortran came to dominate this area of programming early on and has been in continuous use for over six decades
-Not an acronym -
MATH-MATIC
-Developed by Remington Rand
-Developed as a programming language for the UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II.
-Not an acronym -
Lisp
-Developed by John McCarthy
-Developed and now widely used in AI applications
-Not an acronym -
COBOL
-Developed by Mary K. Hawes
-Is a compiled English-like computer programming language designed for business use. It is primarily used in business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments.
-Common Business-Oriented Language -
RPG
-Developed by IBM
-Developed as a high level programming language for business applications
-Stands for Report Program Generator -
BASIC
Developed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz
Developed to enable students in fields other than science and mathematics to use computers.
Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code -
Logo
-Developed by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon.
-Developed as a teaching tool for Lisp and later used to help students predict what a tiny robot was going to do if they were the robot
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B
-Developed by Ken Thompson with Dennis Ritchie
-Developed B as a stripped down BCPL in order to make it fit within the memory capacity of the minicomputers of the time. -
PASCAL
-Developed by Niklaus Wirth
-Designed to allow for the development of well-structured programs, and to be useful for teaching students structured programming.
-Not an acronym -
C
-Developed by Dennis Ritchie
-Originally developed to make utilities running on Unix. Later, it was applied to re-implementing the kernel of the Unix operating system.
-Not an acronym -
ML
-Developed by Robin Milner
-Designed as a general-purpose functional programming language
-Not an acronym -
SQL
-Developed by SQL
-Developed for managing data held in a relational database management system (RDBMS), or for stream processing in a relational data stream management system
-Structured Query Language -
ADA
-Developed by Dr. Jean Ichbiah
-Primary purpose was that the US Department of Defense (DoD) was concerned by the number of different programming languages being used for its embedded computer system projects -
C++
-Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup
-Bjarne wanted to improve on the C language and thought that it was too slow for practical use in large software development so set out to design C++ as a faster more streamlined solution
-Not an acronym -
Python
-Developed by Guido van Rossum
-Python was conceived in the late 1980s as a successor to the ABC language
-Not an acronym -
Visual Basic
-Developed by Microsoft
-Visual Basic was derived from BASIC and enables the rapid application development (RAD) of graphical user interface (GUI) applications
-Not an acronym -
Delphi
-Developed by Embarcadero company
-Developed for rapid application development of desktop, mobile, web, and console software
-Not an acronym -
Java
-Developed by James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, and Patrick Naughton
-Originally developed is a general-purpose programming language that is class-based and object-oriented
-Not an acronym -
JavaScript
-Developed by Brendan Eich
-Developed as a core part of the world wide web and enables interactive webpages and is an essential part of web applications
-Not an acronym -
PHP
-Developed by Zend Technologies
-Designed for web development
-Stands for Hypertext Preprocessor
